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Oracle Linux 6 : freeradius (ELSA-2015-1287)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 85098

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2015-1287 advisory.

 [2.2.6-4]
 - Move OpenSSL init out of version check Resolves: Bug#1189394 radiusd segfaults after update
 - Comment-out ippool-dhcp.conf inclusion Resolves: Bug#1189386 radiusd fails to start after 'clean' installation

 [2.2.6-3]
 - Disable OpenSSL version check Resolves: Bug#1189011

 [2.2.6-2]
 - Fix a number of new Coverity errors and compiler warnings.
 Resolves: Bug#1188598

 [2.2.6-1]
 - Upgrade to the latest upstream release v2.2.6 Resolves: Bug#921563 raddebug not working correctly Resolves: Bug#921567 raddebug -t 0 exists immediately Resolves: Bug#1060319 MSCHAP Authentication is not working using automatic windows user credentials Resolves: Bug#1078736 Rebase FreeRADIUS to 2.2.4 Resolves: Bug#1135439 Default message digest defaults to sha1 Resolves: Bug#1142669 EAP-TLS and OCSP validation causing segmentation fault Resolves: Bug#1173388 dictionary.mikrotik missing Attributes
 - Remove radutmp rotation Resolves: Bug#904578 radutmp should not rotate
 - Check for start_servers not exceeding max_servers Resolves: Bug#1146828 radiusd silently fails when start_servers is higher than max_servers

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-1287.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 85098

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-1287.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/30/2015

Updated: 10/22/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-2015

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-utils, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-python, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:freeradius-perl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:6

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/29/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2015

BID: 65581

RHSA: 2015:1287