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Ubuntu: USN-5785-1 (CVE-2019-17185): FreeRADIUS vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5785-1 (CVE-2019-17185): FreeRADIUS vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/21/2020
Created
01/06/2023
Added
01/04/2023
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

In FreeRADIUS 3.0.x before 3.0.20, the EAP-pwd module used a global OpenSSL BN_CTX instance to handle all handshakes. This mean multiple threads use the same BN_CTX instance concurrently, resulting in crashes when concurrent EAP-pwd handshakes are initiated. This can be abused by an adversary as a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-freeradius
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ubuntu

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