Detections
Analytics
RockyLinux 8 : freeradius:3.0 (RLSA-2023:2870)
high Nessus Plugin ID 323024
Synopsis
The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2023:2870 advisory.* freeradius: Information leakage in EAP-PWD (CVE-2022-41859)
* freeradius: Crash on unknown option in EAP-SIM (CVE-2022-41860)
* freeradius: Crash on invalid abinary data (CVE-2022-41861)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux 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 packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2078483
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2078485
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 323024
File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2023-2870.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: Local
Published: 6/26/2026
Updated: 6/26/2026
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 5.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41859
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 6.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-freeradius, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-perl, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-postgresql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-rest-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-utils-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-mysql-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-sqlite, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-utils, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-unixodbc-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-rest, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:python3-freeradius-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-sqlite-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:freeradius-ldap
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2022