SuSE 11 Security Update : Kerberos (SAT Patch Number 738)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 41415

Synopsis

The remote SuSE 11 host is missing one or more security updates.

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

Apply SAT patch number 738.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485894

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486722

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=486723

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0844.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0845.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0846.html

http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2009-0847.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 41415

File Name: suse_11_krb5-090406.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/24/2009

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, 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:suse_linux:11:krb5-apps-servers, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:krb5-server, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:krb5-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:krb5-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:11:krb5-apps-clients

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/6/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0844, CVE-2009-0845, CVE-2009-0846, CVE-2009-0847

CWE: 119, 189, 20