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CentOS 9 : krb5-1.19.1-22.el9

medium Nessus Plugin ID 191251

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing a security update for krb5-devel.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the krb5-1.19.1-22.el9 build changelog.

 - The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.18.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.3 has a NULL pointer dereference in kdc/do_tgs_req.c via a FAST inner body that lacks a server field.
 (CVE-2021-37750)

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

Solution

Update the CentOS 9 Stream krb5-devel package.

See Also

https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=23615

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 191251

File Name: centos9_krb5-1_19_1-22.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/29/2024

Updated: 4/26/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-37750

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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:centos:centos:libkadm5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-workstation, cpe:/a:centos:centos:9, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-server-ldap

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/8/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-37750