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CentOS 7 : freeradius (CESA-2020:3984)

high Nessus Plugin ID 141587

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CESA-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 this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?51aa1007

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/200.html

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/250.html

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/266.html

https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/567.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 141587

File Name: centos_RHSA-2020-3984.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2020

Updated: 11/30/2020

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, 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: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-perl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-python, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:freeradius-utils, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/20/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/24/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10143, CVE-2019-13456, CVE-2019-17185

CWE: 200, 250, 266, 567

RHSA: 2020:3984