Bug 1468503 (CVE-2017-10983) - CVE-2017-10983 freeradius: Out-of-bounds read in fr_dhcp_decode() when decoding option 63
Summary: CVE-2017-10983 freeradius: Out-of-bounds read in fr_dhcp_decode() when decodi...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-10983
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1469126 1469127 1469412 1469413 1471860
Blocks: 1468570
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-07 09:17 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2021-02-17 01:58 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: freeradius 2.2.10, freeradius 3.0.15
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An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the way FreeRADIUS server handled 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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Last Closed: 2017-08-02 09:40:22 UTC
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Proposed patch 1/2 (719 bytes, patch)
2017-07-07 12:11 UTC, Adam Mariš 		no flags Details | Diff
Proposed patch 2/2 (995 bytes, patch)
2017-07-07 12:11 UTC, Adam Mariš 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1759 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: freeradius security update 2017-07-18 07:41:08 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2389 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: freeradius security update 2017-08-01 19:45:02 UTC

Description Adam Mariš 2017-07-07 09:17:07 UTC 
The fr_dhcp_decode() function performed a strcmp() on binary data in an internal data structure, instead of checking the length of the option and doing a memcmp. The server can read memory until it reaches a zero byte. 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 a DHCP option 63 with non-zero contents.

Affected versions: 2.0.0 through 3.0.14, inclusive.
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2017-07-07 09:17:15 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the FreeRADIUS project
Upstream: Guido Vranken
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2017-07-07 12:11:10 UTC 
Created attachment 1295275 [details]
Proposed patch 1/2
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2017-07-07 12:11:31 UTC 
Created attachment 1295276 [details]
Proposed patch 2/2
Comment 10 Dhiru Kholia 2017-07-17 14:35:52 UTC 
Created freeradius tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1471860]
Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-07-18 03:42:26 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 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 23:25:00 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2389 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2389
Comment 13 Dhiru Kholia 2017-08-02 09:47:53 UTC 
External References:

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