glsa-202101-27.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202101-27">
  <title>FreeRADIUS: Root privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in Gentoo's systemd unit
    for FreeRADIUS which could lead to root privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">freeradius</product>
  <announced>2021-01-26</announced>
  <revised count="1">2021-01-26</revised>
  <bug>630910</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-dialup/freeradius" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.20-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.20-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>FreeRADIUS is a modular, high performance free RADIUS suite.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>It was discovered that Gentoo’s FreeRADIUS systemd unit set
      permissions on an unsafe directory on start.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A local attacker could escalate privileges.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All FreeRADIUS users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-dialup/freeradius-3.0.20-r1"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2021-01-25T21:55:08Z">sam_c</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2021-01-26T00:13:46Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>