CVE-2017-10985

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-07-17
CWE:
CWE-835
Bugzilla:
1468550: CVE-2017-10985 freeradius: Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes
A denial of service flaw was found in the way FreeRADIUS server handled certain attributes in request packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the FreeRADIUS server to enter an infinite loop, consume increasing amounts of memory resources, and ultimately crash by sending a specially crafted request packet.

Find out more about CVE-2017-10985 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 5.9
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (freeradius) RHSA-2017:2389 2017-08-01

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 freeradius Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freeradius2 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 freeradius Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the FreeRADIUS project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Guido Vranken as the original reporter.

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