Bug 2078483 (CVE-2022-41859)

Summary:	CVE-2022-41859 freeradius: Information leakage in EAP-PWD
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	alexander.m.scheel, antorres, fdvorak, lemenkov, nikolai.kondrashov, pkis
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Bug Depends On:	2078484, 2151702, 2151703
Bug Blocks:	2078489, 2160788

Description Pedro Sampaio 2022-04-25 13:01:21 UTC

The EAP-PWD function compute_password_element() leaks information about the password which allows an attacker to substantially reduce the size of an offline dictionary attack.

References:

https://freeradius.org/security/

Upstream fix:

https://github.com/FreeRADIUS/freeradius-server/commit/9e5e8f2f

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2022-04-25 13:01:34 UTC

Created freeradius tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2078484]

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-09 07:13:33 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2023:2166 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2166

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-16 08:23:08 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2023:2870 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2870

Comment 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-16 14:32:46 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2022-41859