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Debian 3.1: DSA 1089-1 Moderate: Freeradius Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey June 3, 2006
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Urgent notice for Debian users regarding FreeRADIUS security vulnerabilities; immediate upgrade recommended to mitigate potential risks of code execution.
Updated package.

Summary


SuSE researchers have discovered several off-by-one errors may
allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly
execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2006-1354

Due to insufficient input validation it is possible for a remote
attacker to bypass authentication or cause a denial of service.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain this package.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.2-4sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.0-1.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your freeradius package.


Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an autom...

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