CVE-2017-10979

9.8 criticalEPSS 7.0%

Critical (9.8) in freeradius freeradius. EPSS 7.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 7.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2017-07-17
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

freeradius:freeradius

References

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

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