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From: Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen <jaervosz@g.o>
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Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200409-29 ] FreeRADIUS: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:12:27
Message-Id: 200409221206.45790.jaervosz@gentoo.org
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2 Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-29
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7 Severity: Normal
8 Title: FreeRADIUS: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities
9 Date: September 22, 2004
10 Bugs: #60587
11 ID: 200409-29
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15 Synopsis
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18 Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities were found and fixed in
19 FreeRADIUS.
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21 Background
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24 FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server
25 implementation.
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27 Affected packages
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31 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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33 1 net-dialup/freeradius < 1.0.1 >= 1.0.1
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35 Description
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38 There are undisclosed defects in the way FreeRADIUS handles incorrect
39 received packets.
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41 Impact
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44 A remote attacker could send specially-crafted packets to the
45 FreeRADIUS server to deny service to other users by crashing the
46 server.
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48 Workaround
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51 There is no known workaround at this time.
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53 Resolution
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56 All FreeRADIUS users should upgrade to the latest version:
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58 # emerge sync
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60 # emerge -pv ">=net-dialup/freeradius-1.0.1"
61 # emerge ">=net-dialup/freeradius-1.0.1"
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63 References
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66 [ 1 ] FreeRADIUS Vulnerability Notifications
67 http://www.freeradius.org/security.html
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69 Availability
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72 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
73 the Gentoo Security Website:
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75 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-29.xml
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77 Concerns?
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80 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
81 confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
82 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
83 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
84 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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86 License
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89 Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
90 belongs to its owner(s).
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92 The contents of this document are licensed under the
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