Please Install the Updated Packages.

FreeRADIUS is an open-source Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) server which allows RADIUS clients to perform authentication against the RADIUS server. The RADIUS server may optionally perform accounting of its operations using the RADIUS protocol. It was found that the &quot unix&quot module ignored the password expiration setting in &quot /etc/shadow&quot . If FreeRADIUS was configured to use this module for user authentication, this flaw could allow users with an expired password to successfully authenticate, even though their access should have been denied. (CVE-2011-4966) This update also fixes the following bugs: * After log rotation, the freeradius logrotate script failed to reload the radiusd daemon and log messages were lost. This update has added a command to the freeradius logrotate script to reload the radiusd daemon and the radiusd daemon re-initializes and reopens its log files after log rotation as expected. (BZ#787111) * The radtest script with the &quot eap-md5&quot option failed because it passed the IP family argument when invoking the radeapclient utility and the radeapclient utility did not recognize the IP family. The radeapclient utility now recognizes the IP family argument and radtest now works with eap-md5 as expected. (BZ#846476) * Previously, freeradius was compiled without the &quot --with-udpfromto&quot option. Consequently, with a multihomed server and explicitly specifying the IP address, freeradius sent the reply with the wrong IP source address. With this update, freeradius has been built with the &quot --with-udpfromto&quot configuration option and the RADIUS reply is always sourced from the IP address the request was sent to. (BZ#846471) * Due to invalid syntax in the PostgreSQL admin schema file, the FreeRADIUS PostgreSQL tables failed to be created. With this update, the syntax has been adjusted and the tables are created as expected. (BZ#818885) * FreeRADIUS has a thread pool that dynamically grows based on load. If multiple threads using the &quot rlm_perl()&quot function are spawned in quick succession, the FreeRADIUS server sometimes terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault due to parallel calls to the &quot rlm_perl_clone()&quot function. With this update, a mutex for the threads has been added and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#846475) * The man page for &quot rlm_dbm_parser&quot was incorrectly installed as &quot rlm_dbm_parse&quot , omitting the trailing &quot r&quot . The man page now correctly appears as rlm_dbm ... Description truncated, for more information please check the Reference URL

freeradius2 on CentOS 5

• http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2013-January/019141.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25