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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-29
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Severity: Normal
Title: FreeRADIUS: Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities
Date: September 22, 2004
Bugs: #60587
ID: 200409-29
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Synopsis
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Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities were found and fixed in
FreeRADIUS.
Background
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FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS authentication server
implementation.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-dialup/freeradius < 1.0.1 >= 1.0.1
Description
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There are undisclosed defects in the way FreeRADIUS handles incorrect
received packets.
Impact
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A remote attacker could send specially-crafted packets to the
FreeRADIUS server to deny service to other users by crashing the
server.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All FreeRADIUS users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge sync
# emerge -pv ">=net-dialup/freeradius-1.0.1"
# emerge ">=net-dialup/freeradius-1.0.1"
References
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[ 1 ] FreeRADIUS Vulnerability Notifications
http://www.freeradius.org/security.html
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200409-29.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@xxxxxxxxxx or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2004 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0
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