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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : FreeRADIUS vulnerabilities (USN-3954-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 124297

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3954-1 advisory.

 It was discovered that FreeRADIUS incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication. (CVE-2019-11234, CVE-2019-11235)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3954-1

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 124297

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3954-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/25/2019

Updated: 8/27/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

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-2019-11235

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:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-redis, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-iodbc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-rest, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreeradius3, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-ldap, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-yubikey, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-utils, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libfreeradius-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-dhcp, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-config, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-common, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius-memcached

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-11234, CVE-2019-11235

USN: 3954-1