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Debian: DSA-3930-1 Important FreeRADIUS Vulnerability and Memory Risk

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2017
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3940-2 highlights vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH which may result in unauthorized access and potential service interruptions.
Guido Vranken discovered that FreeRADIUS, an open source implementation of RADIUS, the IETF protocol for AAA (Authorisation, Authentication, and Accounting), did not properly handl...
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security advisory remote code execution debian security fix memory issue Denial of Service freeRADIUS

Summary

All those issues are covered by this single DSA, but it's worth noting
that not all issues affect all releases:

- CVE-2017-10978 and CVE-2017-10983 affect both jessie and stretch

- CVE-2017-10979, CVE-2017-10980, CVE-2017-10981 and CVE-2017-10982
affect only jessie

- CVE-2017-10984, CVE-2017-10985, CVE-2017-10986 and CVE-2017-10987
affect only stretch.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.2.5+dfsg-0.2+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.0.12+dfsg-5+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeradius packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: freeradius
CVE ID: CVE-2017-10978 CVE-2017-10979 CVE-2017-10980 CVE-2017-10981

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Topics Covered

security advisory remote code execution debian security fix memory issue Denial of Service freeRADIUS

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