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openSUSE Security Update : krb5 (krb5-1792)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 44090

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Specially crafted ticket requests could crash the kerberos server (CVE-2009-3295).

Specially crafted AES and RC4 packets could allow unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger an integer underflow that leads to heap memory corruption (CVE-2009-4212).

Solution

Update the affected krb5 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561347

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561351

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 44090

File Name: suse_11_2_krb5-100113.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/20/2010

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: Medium

Score: 5.9

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-plugin-preauth-pkinit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:11.2, 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, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap, 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: 1/13/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3295, CVE-2009-4212

CWE: 119, 189