Debian DSA-2573-1 : radsecproxy - SSL certificate verification weakness

medium Nessus Plugin ID 62872

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Ralf Paffrath reported that Radsecproxy, a RADIUS protocol proxy, mixed up pre- and post-handshake verification of clients. This vulnerability may wrongly accept clients without checking their certificate chain under certain configurations.

Raphael Geissert spotted that the fix for CVE-2012-4523 was incomplete, giving origin to CVE-2012-4566. Both vulnerabilities are fixed with this update.

Notice that this fix may make Radsecproxy reject some clients that are currently (erroneously) being accepted.

Solution

Upgrade the radsecproxy packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4-1+squeeze1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4523

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4566

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/radsecproxy

https://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2573

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 62872

File Name: debian_DSA-2573.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/12/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:radsecproxy, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-4523, CVE-2012-4566

BID: 56105

DSA: 2573