Out-of-bounds read in FreeRADIUS - CVE-2017-10986

 

Out-of-bounds read in FreeRADIUS - CVE-2017-10986

Published: July 18, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7560
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-10986
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.

The vulnerability exists due to infinite out-of-bounds read in dhcp_attr2vp() function when decoding string options in an array. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted DHCP packet to vulnerable radius server and crash the affected application.

Affected software

FreeRADIUS
Debian Linux
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
Fedora
freeradius

How to mitigate CVE-2017-10986

Update to version 3.0.15.

freeradius - addressed in versions 3.0.15-1.fc25, 3.0.15-1.fc26

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