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Oracle Linux 7 : freeradius (ELSA-2017-2389)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102344

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-2389 advisory.

 - Related: Bug#1469414 CVE-2017-10984 freeradius: Out-of-bounds write in data2vp_wimax()
 - Resolves: Bug#1469409 CVE-2017-10978 freeradius: Out-of-bounds read/write due to improper output buffer size check in make_secret()
 - Resolves: Bug#1469413 CVE-2017-10983 freeradius: Out-of-bounds read in fr_dhcp_decode() when decoding option 63
 - Resolves: Bug#1469414 CVE-2017-10984 freeradius: Out-of-bounds write in data2vp_wimax()
 - Resolves: Bug#1469417 CVE-2017-10985 freeradius: Infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes
 - Resolves: Bug#1469418 CVE-2017-10986 freeradius: Infinite read in dhcp_attr2vp()

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-2017-2389.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102344

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2017-2389.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/10/2017

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, 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-2017-10984

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, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, 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, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-doc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-sqlite

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10978, CVE-2017-10983, CVE-2017-10984, CVE-2017-10985, CVE-2017-10986, CVE-2017-10987

RHSA: 2017:2389