Oracle Linux 7 : freeradius (ELSA-2020-3984)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141233

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-2020-3984 advisory.

[3.0.13-15]
- Fixes EAP-PWD: DoS issues due to multithreaded BN_CTX access Resolves: bz#1818808

[3.0.13-14
- Fixes receiving of multiple RADIUS packets under load Resolves: bz#1630684

[3.0.13-13]
- Fixes logging of cleartext pap password Resolves: bz#1677435

[3.0.13-12]
- Fixes paircompare with attribute references and expansions Resolves: bz#1592741

[3.0.13-11]
- Fixes logrotate, EAP-PWD vulnerability Resolves: bz#1719368 privilege escalation due to insecure logrotate configuration Resolves: bz#1751796 eap-pwd: Information leak due to aborting when needing more than 10 iterations

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-2020-3984.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 141233

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2020-3984.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/7/2020

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10143

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/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 Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10143, CVE-2019-13456, CVE-2019-17185