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Fedora 41 : krb5 (2024-bdc305fe55)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 211133

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2024-bdc305fe55 advisory.

 Automatic update for krb5-1.21.3-1.fc41.

 ##### **Changelog**

 ```
 * Tue Jul 9 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

 ```

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-bdc305fe55

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 211133

File Name: fedora_2024-bdc305fe55.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/14/2024

Updated: 2/17/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-26462

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:41

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: 7/9/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/26/2024

Reference Information

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