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Fedora 36 : heimdal (2022-dba9ba8e2b)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 169051

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-dba9ba8e2b advisory.

 Fixes:

 * Delay service starts until after network is online (rhbz#2005501)
 * Restart services on package update (will apply when updating from this release)


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 This release fixes the following Security Vulnerabilities:

 * CVE-2022-42898 PAC parse integer overflows
 * CVE-2022-3437 Overflows and non-constant time leaks in DES{,3} and arcfour
 * CVE-2022-41916 Fix Unicode normalization read of 1 bytes past end of array
 * CVE-2021-44758 NULL dereference DoS in SPNEGO acceptors
 * CVE-2021-3671 A null pointer de-reference when handling missing sname in TGS-REQ
 * CVE-2022-44640 Heimdal KDC: invalid free in ASN.1 codec

 Note that CVE-2022-44640 is a severe vulnerability, possibly a 10.0 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) v3.


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

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

Solution

Update the affected heimdal package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-dba9ba8e2b

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 169051

File Name: fedora_2022-dba9ba8e2b.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/22/2022

Updated: 11/14/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3671

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-44640

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:heimdal, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:36

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/21/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3671, CVE-2021-44758, CVE-2022-3437, CVE-2022-41916, CVE-2022-42898, CVE-2022-44640