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MiracleLinux 4 : freeradius-2.2.6-7.AXS4 (AXSA:2017-1744:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 289328

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2017-1744:01 advisory.

 The FreeRADIUS Server Project is a high performance and highly configurable GPL'd free RADIUS server. The server is similar in some respects to Livingston's 2.0 server. While FreeRADIUS started as a variant of the Cistron RADIUS server, they don't share a lot in common any more. It now has many more features than Cistron or Livingston, and is much more configurable.
 FreeRADIUS is an Internet authentication daemon, which implements the RADIUS protocol, as defined in RFC 2865 (and others). It allows Network Access Servers (NAS boxes) to perform authentication for dial-up users. There are also RADIUS clients available for Web servers, firewalls, Unix logins, and more. Using RADIUS allows authentication and authorization for a network to be centralized, and minimizes the amount of re-configuration which has to be done when adding or deleting new users.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2017-10978 An FR-GV-201 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 and 3.x before 3.0.15 allows Read / write overflow in make_secret() and a denial of service.
 CVE-2017-10979 An FR-GV-202 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows Write overflow in rad_coalesce() - this allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.
 CVE-2017-10980 An FR-GV-203 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows DHCP - Memory leak in decode_tlv() and a denial of service.
 CVE-2017-10981 An FR-GV-204 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows DHCP - Memory leak in fr_dhcp_decode() and a denial of service.
 CVE-2017-10982 An FR-GV-205 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 allows DHCP - Buffer over-read in fr_dhcp_decode_options() and a denial of service.
 CVE-2017-10983 An FR-GV-206 issue in FreeRADIUS 2.x before 2.2.10 and 3.x before 3.0.15 allows DHCP - Read overflow when decoding option 63 and a denial of service.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

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 freeradius package.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/8176

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 289328

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2017-1744.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-10979

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: cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:freeradius

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/18/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/17/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-10978, CVE-2017-10979, CVE-2017-10980, CVE-2017-10981, CVE-2017-10982, CVE-2017-10983

IAVA: 2017-A-0232