CVE Request -- FreeRADIUS 1.1.8

[Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov () redhat com>]

Hello Steve, vendors,

  FreeRADIUS upstream has today released 1.1.8 version [1] [2],
fixing one remote DoS issue in the handling of Tunnel-Password
attributes. This was already fixed in 0.9.3 [3] version:

  FreeRADIUS 0.9.3 ; Date: 2003/11/20 20:15:48, urgency=high
  * Fix a remote DoS and due to mis-handling of tagged attributes,
    and Tunnel-Password attribute.

as CVE-2003-0967 [4], but managed to re-appear.

Upstream patch:
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http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/860cad9e02ba344edb0038419e415fe05a9a01f4

Affected versions:
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Issue confirmed in freeradius-1.1.3 up to freeradius-1.1.7,
older freeradius-1.1.* version might be also affected.

Version 2.X is not affected by this issue.

References:
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[1] http://freeradius.org/
[2] https://lists.freeradius.org/pipermail/freeradius-users/2009-September/msg00242.html
[3] http://freeradius.org/radiusd/doc/ChangeLog
[4] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-0967
[5] http://github.com/alandekok/freeradius-server/commit/860cad9e02ba344edb0038419e415fe05a9a01f4
[6] http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Securiteam/2003-11/0093.html (PoC)
[7] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521912

Could you please allocate a new CVE identifier?

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
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Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team