Fedora 7 : krb5-1.6.1-9.fc7 (2008-2637)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 31668

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update incorporates fixes included in MITKRB5-SA-2008-001 (use of uninitialized pointer / double-free in the KDC when v4 compatibility is enabled) and MITKRB5-SA-2008-002 (incorrect handling of high-numbered descriptors in the RPC library). This update also incorporates less-critical fixes for a double- free (CVE-2007-5971) and an incorrect attempt to free non-heap memory (CVE-2007-5901) in the GSSAPI library.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected krb5 package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415321

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=415351

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432620

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432621

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=433596

http://www.nessus.org/u?d03904b0

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 31668

File Name: fedora_2008-2637.nasl

Version: 1.21

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5

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: 3/21/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5901, CVE-2007-5971, CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063, CVE-2008-0947

BID: 26750, 28302, 28303

CWE: 119, 189, 399

FEDORA: 2008-2637