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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-3353-01 moderate: FreeRADIUS Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Significant security update for Red Hat's freeradius:3.0 module targeting vulnerability mitigation related to privilege escalation and bugs.
An update for the freeradius:3.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

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: privilege escalation due to insecure logrotate configuration (CVE-2019-10143)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update privilege escalation bug fix red hat enterprise freeradius

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10143 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: freeradius-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.src.rpm
aarch64: freeradius-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-debugsource-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-devel-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-doc-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-krb5-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-krb5-debuginfo-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-ldap-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-ldap-debuginfo-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-mysql-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-mysql-debuginfo-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-perl-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-perl-debuginfo-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-postgresql-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-postgresql-debuginfo-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm freeradius-rest-3.0.17-6.module+el8.1.0+3392+9bd8939b.aarch64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3353-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3353
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for the freeradius:3.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate update privilege escalation bug fix red hat enterprise freeradius

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1685546 - radiusd fails to resolve hostname in ipaddr if the hostname points to ipv6 address.

1705340 - CVE-2019-10143 freeradius: privilege escalation due to insecure logrotate configuration

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