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openSUSE Security Update : krb5 (krb5-740)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 40253
Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.Description
Clients sending negotiation requests with invalid flags could crash the kerberos server (CVE-2009-0845).GSS-API clients could crash when reading from an invalid address space (CVE-2009-0844).
Invalid length checks could crash applications using the kerberos ASN.1 parser (CVE-2009-0847).
Under certain circumstances the ASN.1 parser could free an uninitialized pointer which could crash a kerberos server or even lead to execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2009-0846).
Solution
Update the affected krb5 packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485894
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 40253
File Name: suse_11_1_krb5-090406.nasl
Version: 1.12
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/21/2009
Updated: 1/14/2021
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.4
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-devel-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-apps-clients, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-client, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-apps-servers, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-devel
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2009
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2009-0844, CVE-2009-0845, CVE-2009-0846, CVE-2009-0847