CVE-2017-10983
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-07-17 16:00
Modified
2024-08-05 17:57
Severity ?
Summary
An FR-GV-206 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 and 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "DHCP - Read overflow when decoding option 63" and a denial of service.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99915
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2389
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99915
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2389
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