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Important Security Issue: RHSA-2019-1142 for FreeRADIUS in RHEL 8

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Debian GNU/Linux 11 releases an important security notice highlighting a significant OpenSSH package upgrade addressing critical flaws.
An update for the freeradius:3.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

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.
Security Fix(es):
* freeradius: eap-pwd: authentication bypass via an invalid curve attack (CVE-2019-11235)
* freeradius: eap-pwd: fake authentication using reflection (CVE-2019-11234)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux important security impact authentication bypass freeradius eap-pwd

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11234 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-11235 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: freeradius-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.src.rpm
aarch64: freeradius-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-debugsource-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-devel-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-doc-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-krb5-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-krb5-debuginfo-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-ldap-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-ldap-debuginfo-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-mysql-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-mysql-debuginfo-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-perl-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-perl-debuginfo-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-postgresql-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-postgresql-debuginfo-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm freeradius-rest-3.0.17-4.module+el8.0.0+3108+851cb559.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:1142-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1142
Issue date: 2019-05-13

Topic

An update for the freeradius:3.0 module is now available for Red HatEnterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux important security impact authentication bypass freeradius eap-pwd

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1695748 - CVE-2019-11235 freeradius: eap-pwd: authentication bypass via an invalid curve attack

1695783 - CVE-2019-11234 freeradius: eap-pwd: fake authentication using reflection

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