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CVE-2017-10985

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion...

7.5 HighFix available

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes" and a denial of service.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
None
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Exploit likelihood

3.27%Up 2.0 points since Apr 14, 2021
90%50%10%1%

What each source reports

NVD Score used 7.5

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes" and a denial of service.

Record
CVE-2017-10985
CVSS 3.0
7.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0
7.8 HighAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness
CWE-835
Updated
2026-11-02
CVE List No score

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes" and a denial of service.

Record
CVE-2017-10985
Updated
2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2017-2623 No score

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes" and a denial of service.

Record
EUVD-2017-2623
Updated
2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-f348-xh8r-wr5g 7.5

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion...

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes" and a denial of service.

Record
GHSA-f348-xh8r-wr5g
CVSS 3.0
7.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness
CWE-835
Updated
2026-11-02
OSV 7.5

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes" and a denial of service.

Record
CVE-2017-10985
CVSS 3.0
7.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVDEBIAN-CVE-2017-10985 7.5

An FR-GV-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows "Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes" and a denial of service.

Record
DEBIAN-CVE-2017-10985
CVSS 3.0
7.5 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
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OSVRHSA-2017:2389 8.1

Red Hat Security Advisory: freeradius security update

Record
RHSA-2017:2389
CVSS 3.0
8.1 HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2017-0232 No score

Updated freeradius packages fix security vulnerabilities

Fuzz testing of freeradius found multiple vulnerabilites that resulted in either the potential for remote code execution or a possible denial of service (except for CVE-2017-10988 which was later determined to not actually result in any vulnerability).

Record
MGASA-2017-0232
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVopenSUSE-SU-2024:10767-1 No score

freeradius-server-3.0.23-1.5 on GA media

These are all security issues fixed in the freeradius-server-3.0.23-1.5 package on the GA media of openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Record
openSUSE-SU-2024:10767-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2202-1 No score

Security update for freeradius-server

This update for freeradius-server fixes the following issues:

  • update to 3.0.15 (bsc#1049086)
    • Bind the lifetime of program name and python path to the module
    • CVE-2017-10978: FR-GV-201: Check input / output length in make_secret() (bsc#1049086)
    • CVE-2017-10983: FR-GV-206: Fix read overflow when decoding DHCP option 63 (bsc#1049086)
    • CVE-2017-10984: FR-GV-301: Fix write overflow in data2vp_wimax() (bsc#1049086)
    • CVE-2017-10985: FR-GV-302: Fix infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes (bsc#1049086)
    • CVE-2017-10986: FR-GV-303: Fix infinite read in dhcp_attr2vp() (bsc#1049086)
    • CVE-2017-10987: FR-GV-304: Fix buffer over-read in fr_dhcp_decode_suboptions() (bsc#1049086)
    • CVE-2017-10988: FR-GV-305: Decode 'signed' attributes correctly. (bsc#1049086)
    • FR-AD-001: use strncmp() instead of memcmp() for bounded data
    • Print messages when we see deprecated configuration items
    • Show reasons why we couldn't parse a certificate expiry time
    • Be more accepting about truncated ASN1 times.
    • Fix OpenSSL API issue which could leak small amounts of memory.
    • For Access-Reject, call rad_authlog() after running the post-auth section, just like for Access-Accept.
    • Don't crash when reading corrupted data from session resumption cache.
    • Parse port in dhcpclient.
    • Don't leak memory for OpenSSL.
    • Portability fixes taken from OpenBSD port collection.
    • run rad_authlog after post-auth for Access-Reject.
    • Don't process VMPS packets twice.
    • Fix attribute truncation in rlm_perl
    • Fix bug when processing huntgroups.
    • FR-AD-002 - Bind the lifetime of program name and python path to the module
    • FR-AD-003 - Pass correct statement length into sqlite3_prepare[_v2]
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2202-1
Updated
2026-11-02
OSVSUSE-SU-2017:2243-1 No score

Security update for freeradius-server

This update for freeradius fixes the following issues:

Security issues fixed:

  • CVE-2017-10988: Decode 'signed' attributes correctly. (bnc#1049086)
  • CVE-2017-10987: Check for option overflowing the packet. (bnc#1049086)
  • CVE-2017-10985: Fix infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes. (bnc#1049086)
  • CVE-2017-10984: Fix write overflow in data2vp_wimax(). (bnc#1049086)
  • CVE-2017-10983: Fix read overflow when decoding option 63. (bnc#1049086)
  • CVE-2017-10978: Fix read / write overflow in make_secret(). (bnc#1049086)
Record
SUSE-SU-2017:2243-1
Updated
2026-11-02

Affected products

Affected packages

Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
freeradius
Debian:12
before 3.0.15+dfsg-1
3.0.15+dfsg-1
freeradius
Debian:13
before 3.0.15+dfsg-1
3.0.15+dfsg-1
freeradius
Debian:14
before 3.0.15+dfsg-1
3.0.15+dfsg-1
freeradius
Mageia:5
before 2.2.10-1.mga5
2.2.10-1.mga5
freeradius
Mageia:6
before 3.0.15-1.mga6
3.0.15-1.mga6
freeradius
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
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Affected packages
PackageAffectedFixed
freeradius-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-mysql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-postgresql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-python
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-sqlite
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-unixODBC
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::server
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-debuginfo
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-devel
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-doc
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-krb5
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-ldap
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-mysql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-perl
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-postgresql
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-python
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-sqlite
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-unixODBC
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-utils
Red Hat:enterprise_linux:7::workstation
before 0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
0:3.0.13-8.el7_4
freeradius-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP3
before 3.0.15-2.3.1
3.0.15-2.3.1
freeradius-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
before 3.0.15-2.3.1
3.0.15-2.3.1
freeradius-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP3
before 3.0.15-2.3.1
3.0.15-2.3.1
freeradius-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2
before 3.0.3-17.9.1
3.0.3-17.9.1
freeradius-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP2
before 3.0.3-17.9.1
3.0.3-17.9.1
freeradius-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
before 3.0.3-17.9.1
3.0.3-17.9.1
freeradius-server
SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
before 3.0.3-17.9.1
3.0.3-17.9.1
freeradius-server
openSUSE:Tumbleweed
before 3.0.23-1.5
3.0.23-1.5

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
aliasesEUVD
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Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2017-10985 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Freeradius, published July 17, 2017. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 3.27%, the 88th percentile. Fixed in freeradius 3.0.15+dfsg-1.

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