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RHEL 9: RHSA-2023-2166-01 Moderate: FreeRADIUS Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 9, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
FreeRADIUS patch for RHEL 9 addresses significant security vulnerabilities. Crucial updates outlined within.
An update for freeradius is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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: Information leakage in EAP-PWD (CVE-2022-41859)
* freeradius: Crash on unknown option in EAP-SIM (CVE-2022-41860)
* freeradius: Crash on invalid abinary data (CVE-2022-41861)
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 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact bug fixes freeradius information leakage

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41859 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41860 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41861 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: freeradius-3.0.21-37.el9.src.rpm
aarch64: freeradius-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-debugsource-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-devel-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-doc-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-krb5-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-krb5-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-ldap-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-ldap-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-mysql-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-perl-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-postgresql-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-rest-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-sqlite-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-unixODBC-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-utils-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm freeradius-utils-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm python3-freeradius-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm python3-freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: freeradius-3.0.21-37.el9.ppc64le.rpm freeradius-debuginfo-3.0.21-37.el9.ppc64le.rpm freeradius-debugsource-3.0.21-37.el9.ppc64le.rpm freeradius-devel-3.0.21-37.el9.ppc64le.rpm freeradius-doc-3.0.21-37.el9.ppc64le.rpm freeradius-krb5-3.0.21-37.el9.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:2166-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2166
Issue date: 2023-05-09

Topic

An update for freeradius is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact bug fixes freeradius information leakage

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2078483 - CVE-2022-41859 freeradius: Information leakage in EAP-PWD

2078485 - CVE-2022-41860 freeradius: Crash on unknown option in EAP-SIM

2078487 - CVE-2022-41861 freeradius: Crash on invalid abinary data

2126380 - Add dropped packages to RHEL9 CRB repository

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