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Fedora 39 : krb5 (2024-df2c70dba9)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 202557

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-df2c70dba9 advisory.

 This update fixes multiple CVEs and rebases to the latest upstream version:
 ```
 * Tue Jul 09 2024 Julien Rische <[email protected]> - 1.21.3-1
 - New upstream version (1.21.3)
 - CVE-2024-26458: Memory leak in src/lib/rpc/pmap_rmt.c Resolves: rhbz#2266732
 - CVE-2024-26461: Memory leak in src/lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c Resolves: rhbz#2266741
 - CVE-2024-26462: Memory leak in src/kdc/ndr.c Resolves: rhbz#2266743
 - Add missing SPDX license identifiers Resolves: rhbz#2265333

 * Mon Jul 08 2024 Julien Rische <[email protected]> - 1.21.2-6
 - CVE-2024-37370 CVE-2024-37371: GSS message token handling Resolves: rhbz#2294678 rhbz#2294680
 - Fix double free in klist's show_ccache() Resolves: rhbz#2257301
 - Do not include files with ~ termination in krb5-tests ```

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 krb5 package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-df2c70dba9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 202557

File Name: fedora_2024-df2c70dba9.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2024

Updated: 8/28/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-37371

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:39

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-26458, CVE-2024-26461, CVE-2024-26462, CVE-2024-37370, CVE-2024-37371