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FreeBSD : krb5 -- remote denial of service vulnerability (a30573dc-4893-11df-a5f9-001641aeabdf)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 45573

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

An authenticated remote attacker can causing a denial of service by using a newer version of the kadmin protocol than the server supports.

The MIT Kerberos team also reports the cause :

The Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) can crash due to referencing freed memory.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-003.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?3c69642f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 45573

File Name: freebsd_pkg_a30573dc489311dfa5f9001641aeabdf.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Published: 4/20/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:krb5, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/18/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/6/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0629

BID: 39247