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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
======

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 (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] 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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