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Amazon Linux AMI : freeradius (ALAS-2023-1699)

2023-03-0700:00:00
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amazon linux ami
freeradius
vulnerability
alas-2023-1699
eap-sim
cve-2022-41860
server crash

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

35.2%

The version of freeradius installed on the remote host is prior to 2.2.6-7.17. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1699 advisory.

  • In freeradius, when an EAP-SIM supplicant sends an unknown SIM option, the server will try to look that option up in the internal dictionaries. This lookup will fail, but the SIM code will not check for that failure. Instead, it will dereference a NULL pointer, and cause the server to crash. (CVE-2022-41860)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application’s self-reported version number.

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2023-1699.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(172188);
  script_version("1.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2023/03/07");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2022-41860");

  script_name(english:"Amazon Linux AMI : freeradius (ALAS-2023-1699)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of freeradius installed on the remote host is prior to 2.2.6-7.17. It is, therefore, affected by a
vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1699 advisory.

  - In freeradius, when an EAP-SIM supplicant sends an unknown SIM option, the server will try to look that
    option up in the internal dictionaries. This lookup will fail, but the SIM code will not check for that
    failure. Instead, it will dereference a NULL pointer, and cause the server to crash. (CVE-2022-41860)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2023-1699.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/../../faqs.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-41860.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Run 'yum update freeradius' to update your system.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2022-41860");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2022/12/07");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2023/03/02");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2023/03/07");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-debuginfo");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-krb5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-ldap");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-mysql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-perl");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-postgresql");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-python");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-unixODBC");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-utils");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:amazon:linux");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Amazon Linux Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2023 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/AmazonLinux/release", "Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}

include("rpm.inc");

if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);

var alas_release = get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/release");
if (isnull(alas_release) || !strlen(alas_release)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux");
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^AL(A|\d+|-\d+)", string:alas_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Amazon Linux");
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (os_ver != "A")
{
  if (os_ver == 'A') os_ver = 'AMI';
  audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Amazon Linux AMI", "Amazon Linux " + os_ver);
}

if (!get_kb_item("Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'freeradius-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-debuginfo-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-debuginfo-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-krb5-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-krb5-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-ldap-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-ldap-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-mysql-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-mysql-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-perl-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-perl-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-postgresql-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-postgresql-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-python-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-python-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-unixODBC-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-unixODBC-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-utils-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'i686', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'freeradius-utils-2.2.6-7.17.amzn1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'ALA', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach var package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var sp = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var el_string = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  var epoch = NULL;
  var allowmaj = NULL;
  var exists_check = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['exists_check'])) exists_check = package_array['exists_check'];
  if (reference && _release && (!exists_check || rpm_exists(release:_release, rpm:exists_check))) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_HOLE,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "freeradius / freeradius-debuginfo / freeradius-krb5 / etc");
}
VendorProductVersionCPE
amazonlinuxfreeradiusp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius
amazonlinuxfreeradius-debuginfop-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-debuginfo
amazonlinuxfreeradius-krb5p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-krb5
amazonlinuxfreeradius-ldapp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-ldap
amazonlinuxfreeradius-mysqlp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-mysql
amazonlinuxfreeradius-perlp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-perl
amazonlinuxfreeradius-postgresqlp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-postgresql
amazonlinuxfreeradius-pythonp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-python
amazonlinuxfreeradius-unixodbcp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-unixodbc
amazonlinuxfreeradius-utilsp-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:freeradius-utils
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