CVE-2017-10980

Publication date 17 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

An FR-GV-203 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows "DHCP - Memory leak in decode_tlv()" and a denial of service.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
freeradius	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu8.2

Notes

sbeattie

affects 2.x only

Patch details

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

Package	Patch details
freeradius	Upstream: ef0727f

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