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Medium ALSA-2023:2166 3 CVEs

Moderate: freeradius security and bug fix update

Published May 9, 2023 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

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: Information leakage in EAP-PWD (CVE-2022-41859)
* freeradius: Crash on unknown option in EAP-SIM (CVE-2022-41860)
* freeradius: Crash on invalid abinary data (CVE-2022-41861)

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 13

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-devel 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-doc 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-krb5 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-ldap 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-mysql 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-perl 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-postgresql 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-rest 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-sqlite 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-unixODBC 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 freeradius-utils 3.0.21-37.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 python3-freeradius 3.0.21-37.el9

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41859
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41860
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-41861
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2078483
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2078485
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2078487
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2023-2166.html