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RHEL 7 : freeradius (RHSA-2020:3984)
high Nessus Plugin ID 141018
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3984 advisory.- 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)
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
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/errata/RHSA-2020:3984
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1705340
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 141018
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-3984.nasl
Version: 1.8
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 9/29/2020
Updated: 5/25/2023
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.9
Temporal Score: 5.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10143
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7
Temporal Score: 6.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:freeradius-utils
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/29/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2019