CVE-2017-10985

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-302 issue in FreeRADIUS 3.x before 3.0.15 allows “Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with ‘concat’ attributes” 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 Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

sbeattie

v3 only

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package Patch details
freeradius

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact 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

Other references