Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-10979: ELSA-2017-1759: freeradius security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)
Description
An FR-GV-202 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows "Write overflow in rad_coalesce()" - this allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in the way FreeRADIUS server handled certain attributes in request packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the FreeRADIUS server or to execute arbitrary code in the context of the FreeRADIUS server process by sending a specially crafted request packet.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius
- oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-krb5
- oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-ldap
- oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-mysql
- oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-perl
- oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-postgresql
- oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-python
- oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-unixodbc
- oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-utils
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