SUSE SLES12 Security Update : freeradius-server (SUSE-SU-2020:2391-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 140109

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Synopsis

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

Description

This update for freeradius-server fixes the following issues :

CVE-2019-13456: Fixed a side-channel password leak in EAP-pwd (bsc#1144524).

CVE-2019-17185: Fixed a debial of service due to multithreaded BN_CTX access (bsc#1166847).

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

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-7-2020-2391=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP 12-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SAP-12-SP2-2020-2391=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-LTSS :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2020-2391=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2-BCL :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-BCL-2020-2391=1

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 140109

File Name: suse_SU-2020-2391-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 9/1/2020

Updated: 2/22/2024

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: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.9

Temporal Score: 2.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-13456

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-perl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-python-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-perl-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-postgresql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-utils

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/31/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/3/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-13456, CVE-2019-17185

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