Moderate: freeradius:3.0 security and bug fix update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-17185   CVE-2019-17185   CVE-2019-17185  

Synopsis

Moderate: freeradius:3.0 security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for the freeradius:3.0 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

FreeRADIUS is a high-performance and highly configurable free Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) server, designed to allow centralized authentication and authorization for a network.

Security Fix(es):

  • freeradius: eap-pwd: DoS issues due to multithreaded BN_CTX access (CVE-2019-17185)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1672285 - FreeRADIUS should not generate certificates at package installation
  • BZ - 1805975 - Creating tmp files for systemd on behalf of freeradius references legacy directory /var/run/ instead of /run
  • BZ - 1816680 - CVE-2019-17185 freeradius: eap-pwd: DoS issues due to multithreaded BN_CTX access
  • BZ - 1859527 - freeradius can't generate dhparams with OpenSSL in FIPS

CVEs

References