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Debian: CVE-2017-10979: freeradius -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-10979: freeradius -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/11/2017
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

An FR-GV-202 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows "Write overflow in rad_coalesce()" - this allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-freeradius

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