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Ubuntu 11.04 / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS : freeradius vulnerability (USN-1585-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62348

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Timo Warns discovered that FreeRADIUS incorrectly handled certain long timestamps in client certificates. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw and cause the FreeRADIUS server to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

The default compiler options for affected releases should reduce the vulnerability to a denial of service.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected freeradius package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1585-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62348

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1585-1.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/27/2012

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/26/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3547

BID: 55483

USN: 1585-1