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Red Hat Powertools: RHSA-2002:030-08 High: RADIUS Malformed Packet Risk

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Calendar Grey March 4, 2002
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Updated Cistron RADIUS package for Red Hat Powertools fixes important privilege escalation issues and vulnerabilities.
Various vulnerabilities have been found in CistronRADIUS as well as other RADIUS servers and clients.In versions of Cistron RADIUS 1.6.5 and earlier, malformed packets could beused...

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is currently not available through Red Hat Network. Due to a bug in previously released versions, the original package must be removed, and the new package must be installed to apply this update (as root):

# /sbin/service radiusd stop # /sbin/chkconfig --del radiusd # rpm -e --noscripts radiusd-cistron # rpm -ivh radiusd-cistron-1.6.6-2.[arch].rpm

where [arch] is the architecture.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):



6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Powertools 7.0:

SRPMS:


alpha:


i386:


Red Hat Powertools 7.1:

SRPMS:


alpha:


i386:




7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 398e46f80c48654b26a2c484e264b485 7.0/en/powertools/SRPMS/radiusd-cistron-1.6.6-2.src.rpm 080c782aeb81f4a0e4dda4e31efbe660 7.0/en/powertools/alpha/radiusd-cistron-1.6.6-2.alpha.rpm b5c937f5e48d4d3484b64e20f8785b4a 7.0/en/powertools/i386/radiusd-cistron-1.6.6-2.i386.rpm 398e46f80c48654b26a2c484e264b485 7.1/en/powertools/SRPMS/radiusd-cistron-1.6.6-2.src.rpm 080c782aeb81f4a0e4dda4e31efbe660 7.1/en/powertools/alpha/radiusd-cistron-1.6.6-2.alpha.rpm b5c937f5e48d4d3484b64e20f8785b4a 7.1/en/powertools/i386/radiusd-cistron-1.6.6-2.i386.rpm


These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: About

You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg

Summary

References

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2002:030-08
Issue date: 2002-02-20
Updated on: 2002-03-04
Product: Red Hat Powertools
Keywords: radius radiusd malformed packet
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Topic

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Powertools 7.0 - alpha, i386

Red Hat Powertools 7.1 - alpha, i386

Bugs Fixed

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