RHEL 4 : freeradius (RHSA-2005:524)

high Nessus Plugin ID 18557

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for freeradius.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2005:524 advisory.

FreeRADIUS is a high-performance and highly configurable free RADIUS server designed to allow centralized authentication and authorization for a network.

A buffer overflow bug was found in the way FreeRADIUS escapes data in an SQL query. An attacker may be able to crash FreeRADIUS if they cause FreeRADIUS to escape a string containing three or less characters. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-1454 to this issue.

Additionally a bug was found in the way FreeRADIUS escapes SQL data. It is possible that an authenticated user could execute arbitrary SQL queries by sending a specially crafted request to FreeRADIUS. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2005-1455 to this issue.

Users of FreeRADIUS should update to these erratum packages, which contain backported patches and are not vulnerable to these issues.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise 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 RHEL freeradius package based on the guidance in RHSA-2005:524.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 18557

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2005-524.nasl

Version: 1.27

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 6/24/2005

Updated: 11/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

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-2005-1455

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2005-1454

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-unixodbc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2005

Reference Information

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

RHSA: 2005:524

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