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Oracle Linux 6 : freeradius (ELSA-2017-1759)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 101798

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-1759 advisory.

 - Resolves: Bug#1469115 CVE-2017-10979 freeradius: Out-of-bounds write in rad_coalesce()
 - Resolves: Bug#1469118 CVE-2017-10978 freeradius: Out-of-bounds read/write due to improper output buffer size check in make_secret()
 - Resolves: Bug#1469120 CVE-2017-10980 freeradius: Memory leak in decode_tlv()
 - Resolves: Bug#1469122 CVE-2017-10981 freeradius: Memory leak in fr_dhcp_decode()
 - Resolves: Bug#1469124 CVE-2017-10982 freeradius: Out-of-bounds read in fr_dhcp_decode_options()

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-1759.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 101798

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-1759.nasl

Version: 3.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/19/2017

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-10979

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-python, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-perl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/OracleLinux, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10978, CVE-2017-10979, CVE-2017-10980, CVE-2017-10981, CVE-2017-10982, CVE-2017-10983

RHSA: 2017:1759