CVE-2017-10986

freeradius: Infinite read in dhcp_attr2vp()

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

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Published · July 17, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way FreeRADIUS server handled decoding of DHCP packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the FreeRADIUS server by sending a specially crafted DHCP request.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read