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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : freeradius-server (SUSE-SU-2017:2243-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 102728

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

This update for freeradius fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed :

 - CVE-2017-10988: Decode 'signed' attributes correctly.
 (bnc#1049086)

 - CVE-2017-10987: Check for option overflowing the packet.
 (bnc#1049086)

 - CVE-2017-10985: Fix infinite loop and memory exhaustion with 'concat' attributes. (bnc#1049086)

 - CVE-2017-10984: Fix write overflow in data2vp_wimax().
 (bnc#1049086)

 - CVE-2017-10983: Fix read overflow when decoding option 63. (bnc#1049086)

 - CVE-2017-10978: Fix read / write overflow in make_secret(). (bnc#1049086)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-SP2-2017-1373=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Raspberry Pi 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-1373=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12-SP2:zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-1373=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049086

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10978/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10983/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10984/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10985/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10987/

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-10988/

http://www.nessus.org/u?88eaae02

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 102728

File Name: suse_SU-2017-2243-1.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/24/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-libs, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-mysql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-perl, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-postgresql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-python, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-python-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-utils, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:freeradius-server-utils-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/23/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10978, CVE-2017-10983, CVE-2017-10984, CVE-2017-10985, CVE-2017-10987, CVE-2017-10988