vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2019-17185: ELSA-2020-3984: freeradius security and bug fix update (MODERATE) (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 14, 2019
Added
Oct 7, 2020
Modified
Dec 3, 2025

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.

Solutions

oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradiusoracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-develoracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-docoracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-krb5oracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-ldaporacle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-mysqloracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-perloracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-postgresqloracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-pythonoracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-restoracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-sqliteoracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-unixodbcoracle-linux-upgrade-freeradius-utilsoracle-linux-upgrade-python3-freeradius
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