RHSA-2020:3984 — Security Advisory

An update for freeradius is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

FreeRADIUS is a high-performance and highly configurable free Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) server, designed to allow centralized authentication and authorization for a network.

Security Fix(es):

• freeradius: privilege escalation due to insecure logrotate configuration (CVE-2019-10143)

• freeradius: eap-pwd: Information leak due to aborting when needing more than 10 iterations (CVE-2019-13456)

• freeradius: eap-pwd: DoS issues due to multithreaded BN_CTX access (CVE-2019-17185)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.