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Debian DLA-1064-1 : freeradius security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102784

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Guido Vranken discovered that FreeRADIUS, an open source implementation of RADIUS, the IETF protocol for AAA (Authorisation, Authentication, and Accounting), did not properly handle memory when processing packets. This would allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service by application crash, or potentially execute arbitrary code.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2+deb7u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeradius packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/08/msg00016.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/freeradius

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102784

File Name: debian_DLA-1064.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/28/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, 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 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:debian:debian_linux:freeradius-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreeradius2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeradius-dialupadmin, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeradius-iodbc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeradius-common, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libfreeradius-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:freeradius-utils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/25/2017

Reference Information

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