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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-10980: ELSA-2017-1759: freeradius security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

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Oracle Linux: CVE-2017-10980: ELSA-2017-1759: freeradius security update (IMPORTANT) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/17/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/19/2017
Modified
11/29/2024

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. A memory leak flaw was found in the way FreeRADIUS server handles decoding of DHCP packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause the FreeRADIUS server to consume an increasing amount of memory resources over time possibly leading to a crash due to memory exhaustion.

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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