Debian DLA-3213-1 : krb5 - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 168264

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 10 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3213 advisory.

- krb5: integer overflow vulnerabilities in PAC parsing (CVE-2022-42898)

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

Solution

Upgrade the krb5 packages.

For Debian 10 Buster, this problem has been fixed in version 1.17-3+deb10u5.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2022/dla-3213

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-42898

https://packages.debian.org/source/buster/krb5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 168264

File Name: debian_DLA-3213.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/29/2022

Updated: 9/29/2023

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-42898

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-admin-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-gss-samples, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-k5tls, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-kdc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-kdc-ldap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-kpropd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-locales, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-multidev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-otp, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-user, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgssapi-krb5-2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libgssrpc4, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libk5crypto3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkadm5clnt-mit11, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkadm5srv-mit11, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkdb5-9, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrad-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrad0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrb5-3, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrb5-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrb5-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrb5support0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:10.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/29/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-42898