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Security ERRATA Moderate: freeradius on SL5.x i386/x86_64
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
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Troy Dawson <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:27:17 -0500
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Synopsis:	Moderate: freeradius security update
Issue date:	2009-09-17
CVE Names:	CVE-2009-3111

CVE-2009-3111 FreeRADIUS: Missing check for Tunnel-Password attributes 
with zero length (DoS) -- re-appearance of CVE-2003-0967

An input validation flaw was discovered in the way FreeRADIUS decoded
specific RADIUS attributes from RADIUS packets. A remote attacker could 
use this flaw to crash the RADIUS daemon (radiusd) via a 
specially-crafted RADIUS packet. (CVE-2009-3111)

After installing the update, radiusd will be restarted automatically.

SL 5.x

     SRPMS:
freeradius-1.1.3-1.5.el5_4.src.rpm
     i386:
freeradius-1.1.3-1.5.el5_4.i386.rpm
freeradius-mysql-1.1.3-1.5.el5_4.i386.rpm
freeradius-postgresql-1.1.3-1.5.el5_4.i386.rpm
freeradius-unixODBC-1.1.3-1.5.el5_4.i386.rpm
     x86_64:
freeradius-1.1.3-1.5.el5_4.x86_64.rpm
freeradius-mysql-1.1.3-1.5.el5_4.x86_64.rpm
freeradius-postgresql-1.1.3-1.5.el5_4.x86_64.rpm
freeradius-unixODBC-1.1.3-1.5.el5_4.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson

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