USN-3369-1: FreeRADIUS vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3369-1

27th July, 2017

freeradius vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 17.04
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in FreeRADIUS.

Software description

• freeradius - high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server

Details

Guido Vranken discovered that FreeRADIUS incorrectly handled memory when
decoding packets. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause
FreeRADIUS to crash or hang, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly
execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 17.04:

freeradius 3.0.12+dfsg-4ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

freeradius 2.2.8+dfsg-0.1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

freeradius 2.1.12+dfsg-1.2ubuntu8.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2017-10978, CVE-2017-10979, CVE-2017-10980, CVE-2017-10981, CVE-2017-10982, CVE-2017-10983, CVE-2017-10984, CVE-2017-10985, CVE-2017-10986, CVE-2017-10987

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