Updated freeradius2 packages that fix one security issue and multiple bugsare now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having lowsecurity impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section. FreeRADIUS is an open-source Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service server which allows RADIUS clients to perform authentication against the RADIUS server. The RADIUS server may optionally performaccounting of its operations using the RADIUS protocol. It was found that the "unix" module ignored the password expiration setting in "/etc/shadow". If FreeRADIUS was configured to use this modulefor user authentication, this flaw could allow users with an expiredpassword to successfully authenticate, even though their access should have been denied. 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 rotationas expected. * The radtest script with the "eap-md5" option failed because it passed theIP family argument when invoking the radeapclient utility and the radeapclient utility did not recognize the IP family. The radeap client utility now recognizes the IP family argument and radtest now works with eap-md5 as expected. * Previously, freeradius was compiled with out the "--with-udpfromto"option. Consequently, with a multihomed server and explicitly specify ingthe IP address, freeradius sent the reply with the wrong IP source address. With this update, freeradius has been built with the "--with-udpfromto"configuration option and the RADIUS reply is always sourced from the IPaddress the request was sent to. * Due to invalid syntax in the PostgreSQL admin schema file, the FreeRADIUSPostgreSQL tables failed to be created. With this update, the syntax has been adjusted and the tables are created as expected. * FreeRADIUS has a thread pool that dynamically grows based on load. Ifmultiple threads using the "rlm_perl" function are spawned in quicksuccession, the FreeRADIUS server sometimes terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault due to parallel calls to the "rlm_perl_clone"function. With this update, a mutex for the threads has been added and the problem no longer occurs. * The man page for "rlm_dbm_parser" was incorrectly installed as"rlm_dbm_parse", omitting the trailing "r". The man page now correctly appears as rlm_dbm_parser. All users of freeradius2 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,which contain backported patches to correct these issues. They are alsoadvised to check for RPM backup files ending in ".rpmnew" or ".rpmsave"under the /etc/raddb/ directory after the update because the FreeRADIUSserver will attempt to load every file it finds in its configuration directory. The extra files will often cause the wrong configuration values to be applied resulting in either unpredictable behavior or the failure ofthe server to initialize and run.