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GLSA-200505-13 : FreeRADIUS: SQL injection and Denial of Service vulnerability

high Nessus Plugin ID 18272

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200505-13 (FreeRADIUS: SQL injection and Denial of Service vulnerability)

 Primoz Bratanic discovered that the sql_escape_func function of FreeRADIUS may be vulnerable to a buffer overflow (BID 13541). He also discovered that FreeRADIUS fails to sanitize user-input before using it in a SQL query, possibly allowing SQL command injection (BID 13540).
 Impact :

 By supplying carefully crafted input, a malicious user could cause an SQL injection or a buffer overflow, possibly leading to the disclosure and the modification of sensitive data or Denial of Service by crashing the server.
 Workaround :

 There are no known workarounds at this time.

Solution

All FreeRADIUS users should upgrade to the latest available version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-dialup/freeradius-1.0.2-r4'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200505-13

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18272

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200505-13.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Published: 5/17/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:freeradius, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1454, CVE-2005-1455

BID: 13540, 13541

GLSA: 200505-13