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CentOS 5 : freeradius2 (CESA-2012:1327)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62396

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated freeradius2 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

FreeRADIUS is a high-performance and highly configurable free Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) server, designed to allow centralized authentication and authorization for a network.

A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the way radiusd handled the expiration date field in X.509 client certificates. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to crash radiusd if it were configured to use the certificate or TLS tunnelled authentication methods (such as EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, and PEAP). (CVE-2012-3547)

Red Hat would like to thank Timo Warns of PRESENSE Technologies GmbH for reporting this issue.

Users of FreeRADIUS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, radiusd will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected freeradius2 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?42dce170

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62396

File Name: centos_RHSA-2012-1327.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/3/2012

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2012-3547

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius2, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius2-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius2-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius2-python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius2-utils, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius2-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius2-unixodbc, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius2-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius2-krb5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/2/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/18/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-3547

BID: 55483

RHSA: 2012:1327