FreeBSD : freeradius -- denial-of-service vulnerability (20dfd134-1d39-11d9-9be9-000c6e8f12ef)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18867

Synopsis

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

Description

A remote attacker may be able to crash the freeRADIUS Server due to three independent bugs in the function which does improper checking values while processing RADIUS attributes.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://securitytracker.com/id/1011364

http://www.nessus.org/u?13fa3e44

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18867

File Name: freebsd_pkg_20dfd1341d3911d99be9000c6e8f12ef.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Published: 7/13/2005

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:freeradius, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 10/13/2004

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2004

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-0938, CVE-2004-0960, CVE-2004-0961

BID: 11222

CERT: 541574