Ubuntu 17.04 : freeradius vulnerability (USN-3316-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100678

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Stefan Winter and Lubos Pavlicek discovered that FreeRADIUS incorrectly handled the TLS session cache. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass authentication by resuming an unauthenticated session.

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Solution

Update the affected freeradius package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3316-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 100678

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3316-1.nasl

Version: 3.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/8/2017

Updated: 1/12/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:freeradius, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:17.04

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/7/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9148

USN: 3316-1