Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-10979

Title: Freeradius RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-10979.

CWE Category CWE-787

Published Date Jul 17, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

19.92%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-10979: 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.

Impacted Vendors

freeradius 1

Reference Links

http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99901 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759 http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3930 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99901 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038914 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns