Bug 1468498 (CVE-2017-10982)

Summary: CVE-2017-10982 freeradius: Out-of-bounds read in fr_dhcp_decode_options()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dpal, jdennis, lemenkov, nikolai.kondrashov, pkis, security-response-team
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Fixed In Version: freeradius 2.2.10 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way FreeRADIUS server handles decoding of DHCP packets. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash the FreeRADIUS server by sending a specially crafted DHCP request.
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Bug Depends On: 1469124, 1469125, 1471858    
Bug Blocks: 1468570    
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Description Adam Mariš 2017-07-07 09:10:17 UTC 
The fr_dhcp_decode_options() function does not do proper bounds checks on option lengths, leading to out-of-bounds read.

The server can read up to 253 octets more data than it should. Depending on memory layout, this read may initiate a page fault, and cause the server to crash. 

The security impact is denial of service by any network device capable of sending DHCP packets to FreeRADIUS, which sends packets with malformed options.

Affected versions: 2.0.0 through 2.2.9, inclusive.
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-07-07 09:10:25 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the FreeRADIUS project
Upstream: Guido Vranken
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-07-07 12:12:19 UTC 
Created attachment 1295277 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 6 Dhiru Kholia 2017-07-17 14:34:49 UTC 
Created freeradius tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1471858]
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-07-18 03:42:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:1759 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1759
Comment 8 Dhiru Kholia 2017-08-02 09:44:20 UTC 
External References:

http://freeradius.org/security/fuzzer-2017.html