SUSE SLES12 Security Update : freeradius-server (SUSE-SU-2023:0135-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 170664

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:0135-1 advisory.

- In freeradius, the EAP-PWD function compute_password_element() leaks information about the password which allows an attacker to substantially reduce the size of an offline dictionary attack. (CVE-2022-41859)

- In freeradius, when an EAP-SIM supplicant sends an unknown SIM option, the server will try to look that option up in the internal dictionaries. This lookup will fail, but the SIM code will not check for that failure. Instead, it will dereference a NULL pointer, and cause the server to crash. (CVE-2022-41860)

- A flaw was found in freeradius. A malicious RADIUS client or home server can send a malformed abinary attribute which can cause the server to crash. (CVE-2022-41861)

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 170664

File Name: suse_SU-2023-0135-1.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 1/26/2023

Updated: 7/13/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41859

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/25/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-41859, CVE-2022-41860, CVE-2022-41861

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:0135-1

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