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Amazon Linux 2 : krb5 (ALAS-2024-2512)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 193520

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Synopsis

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

Description

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2024-2512 advisory.

 Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak in /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmap_rmt.c. (CVE-2024-26458)

 Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak vulnerability in /krb5/src/lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c.
 (CVE-2024-26461)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product 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

Run 'yum update krb5' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2024-2512.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-26458.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-26461.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 193520

File Name: al2_ALAS-2024-2512.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/18/2024

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:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26461

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26458

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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/11/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26458, CVE-2024-26461

IAVB: 2024-B-0082