Scientific Linux Security Update : freeradius on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150722)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85192

Synopsis

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

Description

A stack-based buffer overflow was found in the way the FreeRADIUS rlm_pap module handled long password hashes. An attacker able to make radiusd process a malformed password hash could cause the daemon to crash. (CVE-2014-2015)

The freeradius packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.2.6, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version, including :

- The number of dictionaries have been updated.

- This update implements several Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) improvements.

- A number of new expansions have been added, including:
%{randstr:...}, %{hex:...}, %{sha1:...}, %{base64:...}, %{tobase64:...}, and %{base64tohex:...}.

- Hexadecimal numbers (0x...) are now supported in %{expr:...} expansions.

- This update adds operator support to the rlm_python module.

- The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and DHCP relay code have been finalized.

- This update adds the rlm_cache module to cache arbitrary attributes.

This update also fixes the following bugs :

- The /var/log/radius/radutmp file was configured to rotate at one-month intervals, even though this was unnecessary. This update removes /var/log/radius/radutmp from the installed logrotate utility configuration in the /etc/logrotate.d/radiusd file, and /var/log/radius/radutmp is no longer rotated.

- The radiusd service could not write the output file created by the raddebug utility. The raddebug utility now sets appropriate ownership to the output file, allowing radiusd to write the output.

- After starting raddebug using the 'raddebug -t 0' command, raddebug exited immediately. A typo in the special case comparison has been fixed, and raddebug now runs for 11.5 days in this situation.

- MS-CHAP authentication failed when the User-Name and MS-CHAP-User-Name attributes used different encodings, even when the user provided correct credentials. Now, MS-CHAP authentication properly handles mismatching character encodings. Authentication with correct credentials no longer fails in this situation.

- Automatically generated default certificates used the SHA-1 algorithm message digest, which is considered insecure. The default certificates now use the more secure SHA-256 algorithm message digest.

- During the Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) validation, radiusd terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault after attempting to access the next update field that was not provided by the OCSP responder. Now, radiusd does not crash in this situation and instead continues to complete the OCSP validation.

- Prior to this update, radiusd failed to work with some of the more recent MikroTIK attributes, because the installed directory.mikrotik file did not include them.
This update adds MikroTIK attributes with IDs up to 22 to dictionary.mikrotik, and radiusd now works as expected with these attributes.

After installing this update, the radiusd service will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d0df89c6

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85192

File Name: sl_20150722_freeradius_on_SL6_x.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2015

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius-krb5, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius-ldap, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius-mysql, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius-perl, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius-postgresql, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius-python, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius-unixodbc, p-cpe:/a:fermilab:scientific_linux:freeradius-utils, x-cpe:/o:fermilab:scientific_linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 7/22/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-2015