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GLSA-200704-14 : FreeRADIUS: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25059

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-200704-14 (FreeRADIUS: Denial of Service)

 The Coverity Scan project has discovered a memory leak within the handling of certain malformed Diameter format values inside an EAP-TTLS tunnel.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could send a large amount of specially crafted packets to a FreeRADIUS server using EAP-TTLS authentication and exhaust all memory, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All FreeRADIUS users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-dialup/freeradius-1.1.6'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200704-14

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25059

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200704-14.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 4/19/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/17/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/12/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2028

GLSA: 200704-14