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Amazon Linux 2 : krb5 (ALAS-2022-1845)

high Nessus Plugin ID 165992

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2022-1845 advisory.

 A flaw was found in krb5. MIT Kerberos 5 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.
 (CVE-2020-28196)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Run 'yum update krb5' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2022-1845.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-28196.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 165992

File Name: al2_ALAS-2022-1845.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/10/2022

Updated: 12/11/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-28196

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libkadm5, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-workstation, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-server-ldap, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/AmazonLinux/release, Host/AmazonLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/5/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-28196