This update for krb5 provides the following fixes: Security issues fixed :

  - CVE-2018-5730: DN container check bypass by supplying     special crafted data (bsc#1083927).

  - CVE-2018-5729: NULL pointer dereference in kadmind or DN     container check bypass by supplying special crafted data     (bsc#1083926). Non-security issues fixed :

  - Make it possible for legacy applications (e.g. SAP     Netweaver) to remain compatible with newer Kerberos.
    System administrators who are experiencing this kind of     compatibility issues may set the environment variable     GSSAPI_ASSUME_MECH_MATCH to a non-empty value, and make     sure the environment variable is visible and effective     to the application startup script. (bsc#1057662)

  - Fix a GSS failure in legacy applications by not     indicating deprecated GSS mechanisms in     gss_indicate_mech() list. (bsc#1081725)

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SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2018:0846-1)

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