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RedHat: RHSA-2020-3984-01 Moderate: FreeRADIUS Security Issues

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Upgrade for FreeRADIUS on RHEL 7 resolves a low-impact security vulnerability along with several bug corrections.
An update for freeradius is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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

After installing the update, radiusd must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

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)
* freeradius: eap-pwd: Information leak due to aborting when needing more than 10 iterations (CVE-2019-13456)
* freeradius: eap-pwd: DoS issues due to multithreaded BN_CTX access (CVE-2019-17185)
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 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update red hat bug fix freeradius

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10143 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13456 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17185 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.9_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: freeradius-3.0.13-15.el7.src.rpm
ppc64: freeradius-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: freeradius-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64le.rpm freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: freeradius-3.0.13-15.el7.s390x.rpm freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.13-15.el7.s390x.rpm
x86_64: freeradius-3.0.13-15.el7.x86_64.rpm freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.13-15.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):
ppc64: freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc.rpm freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-devel-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc.rpm freeradius-devel-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-doc-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-krb5-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-ldap-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-mysql-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-perl-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-postgresql-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-python-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-sqlite-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-unixODBC-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm freeradius-utils-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64le.rpm freeradius-devel-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64le.rpm freeradius-doc-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64le.rpm freeradius-krb5-3.0.13-15.el7.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:3984-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:3984
Issue date: 2020-09-29

Topic

An update for freeradius is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update red hat bug fix freeradius

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1592741 - Freeradius paircompare with attribute references and expansions

1630684 - correct receiving of multiple RADIUS packets through RadSec by freeradius

1677435 - freeradius logs cleartext PAP passwords on failure

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

1737663 - CVE-2019-13456 freeradius: eap-pwd: Information leak due to aborting when needing more than 10 iterations

1816680 - CVE-2019-17185 freeradius: eap-pwd: DoS issues due to multithreaded BN_CTX access

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