CVE-2017-10986

Publication date 17 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

An FR-GV-303 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "DHCP - Infinite read in dhcp_attr2vp()" and a denial of service.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
freeradius 17.04 zesty
Fixed 3.0.12+dfsg-4ubuntu1.2
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

v3 only

Patch details

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Package Patch details
freeradius

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3369-1
    • FreeRADIUS vulnerabilities
    • 27 July 2017

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