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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-10984: ELSA-2017-2389: freeradius security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-10984: ELSA-2017-2389: freeradius security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/09/2017
Modified
07/22/2024

Description

An FR-GV-301 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Write overflow in data2vp_wimax()" - this allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way FreeRADIUS server handled certain attributes in request packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the FreeRADIUS server or to execute arbitrary code in the context of the FreeRADIUS server process by sending a specially crafted request packet.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-doc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-krb5
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-ldap
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-mysql
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-perl
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-postgresql
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-python
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-sqlite
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-unixodbc
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-utils

References

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