Detections
Analytics

Fedora 12 : krb5-1.7.1-6.fc12 (2010-4677)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 47369

Language:

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

A GSSAPI-authenticated service could be remotely forced to trigger an assertion failure by sending it certain invalid messages (MITKRB5-SA-2010-002, CVE-2010-0628). The included patch for adding PAM support to the bundled FTP server contained a bug which would cause the service to crash if a client attempted to authenticate as a user who was not known to the server system. In the default xinetd configuration, the service would be invoked with the -a flag, and this would therefore only be possible if the client authenticated using GSSAPI beforehand.

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=566258

http://www.nessus.org/u?29640e85

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 47369

File Name: fedora_2010-4677.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2010

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:12

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/16/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0628

BID: 38904

FEDORA: 2010-4677