RHEL 9 : krb5 (RHSA-2023:6699)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 185135

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for krb5.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:6699 advisory.

Kerberos is a network authentication system, which can improve the security of your network by eliminating the insecure practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form. It allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other with the help of a trusted third party, the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC).

Security Fix(es):

* krb5: Denial of service through freeing uninitialized pointer (CVE-2023-36054)

* krb5: double-free in KDC TGS processing (CVE-2023-39975)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL krb5 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2023:6699.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3084106c

http://www.nessus.org/u?619e5320

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2060421

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2155607

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178298

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2187722

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2230178

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2232682

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6699

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 185135

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-6699.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2023

Updated: 11/7/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-39975

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:libkadm5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-server-ldap, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-workstation, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/7/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/11/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36054, CVE-2023-39975

CWE: 415, 824

RHSA: 2023:6699