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Bug 1470801 - radiusd silently truncates the Tunnel-password attribute in its length is over 249 characters
Summary: radiusd silently truncates the Tunnel-password attribute in its length is ove...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: freeradius
Version: 6.10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Nikolai Kondrashov
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-07-13 17:28 UTC by Patrik Kis
Modified: 2017-12-06 10:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Clone Of: 1463673
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Last Closed: 2017-12-06 10:20:14 UTC
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Description Patrik Kis 2017-07-13 17:28:58 UTC 
The bug also exists on RHEL-6. If there will be also other fixes, it's maybe worth to fix this one as well.

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1463673 +++

Description of problem:
The maximum length of Tunnel-password attribute seems to the 249 characters according the specifications (the is one octet to store the value + there are some other octets used for header). If longer password is set, radiusd accepts it (do not report error and starts), but then the length is truncated to usable value.
That is not intuitive and may confuse users. If the length is over 1022 characters the radiusd simply do not start end report error. IMO, it should be the same for lengths which can not be sent over the protocol (i.e. 250 and more)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
freeradius-3.0.13-5.el7

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a test user with Tunnel-password (length 250 characters), eg:
testuser250 Cleartext-Password := passme
    Tunnel-Password = PjHzPhdzLzhZELZG7oD5LPW9vpkN0Q3L7n11wrsao1wmsKRrSkeGGxYiP8wJTfNjKAE4pNE1cdmdu574XmtkCHOPQBGDXeYc04iqWa6fqZVyzHaQIQKuBHFz19T2PgOGKWiV2qRtmdar9ReRH72HDvfJQPBBgXIe7ic956pOL539GpsYIdrpikaZ2UEiVZBcgblMbEp8Brmd4m9e0rFbkkAXLHfu736URPnaaL77CKc1GRgsrSV5nTVPfy

2. Run the server
3. Test with radtest:

# radtest testuser250 passme localhost 0 testing123
Sent Access-Request Id 223 from 0.0.0.0:41687 to 127.0.0.1:1812 length 92
	User-Name = "testuser250"
	User-Password = "passme"
	NAS-IP-Address = 192.168.100.70
	NAS-Port = 0
	Message-Authenticator = 0x00
	Cleartext-Password = "passme"
Received Access-Accept Id 223 from 127.0.0.1:1812 to 0.0.0.0:0 length 275
	Tunnel-Password:0 = "PjHzPhdzLzhZELZG7oD5LPW9vpkN0Q3L7n11wrsao1wmsKRrSkeGGxYiP8wJTfNjKAE4pNE1cdmdu574XmtkCHOPQBGDXeYc04iqWa6fqZVyzHaQIQKuBHFz19T2PgOGKWiV2qRtmdar9ReRH72HDvfJQPBBgXIe7ic956pOL539GpsYIdrpikaZ2UEiVZBcgblMbEp8Brmd4m9e0rFbkkAXLHfu736URPnaaL77CKc1GRgsrSV5nTVPf"

^^^ Note the missing 'y' at the end of Tunnel-password attribute.
Comment 1 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 10:20:14 UTC 
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