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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200704-14
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  Severity: Normal
     Title: FreeRADIUS: Denial of Service
      Date: April 17, 2007
      Bugs: #174292
        ID: 200704-14

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Synopsis
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A memory leak has been discovered in FreeRADIUS, possibly allowing for
a Denial of Service.

Background
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FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server
implementation.

Affected packages
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     Package                /  Vulnerable  /                Unaffected
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  1  net-dialup/freeradius       < 1.1.6                      >= 1.1.6

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

Impact
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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
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All FreeRADIUS users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-dialup/freeradius-1.1.6"

References
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  [ 1 ] CVE-2007-2028
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2028

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

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

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.

License
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/