RHEL 6 : krb5 (RHSA-2010:0925)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 50852

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for krb5.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2010:0925 advisory.

- krb5: incorrect acceptance of certain checksums (MITKRB5-SA-2010-007) (CVE-2010-1323)

- krb5: multiple checksum handling vulnerabilities (MITKRB5-SA-2010-007) (CVE-2010-1324)

- krb5: krb5 may accept authdata checksums with low-entropy derived keys (MITKRB5-SA-2010-007) (CVE-2010-4020)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL krb5 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2010:0925.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 50852

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2010-0925.nasl

Version: 1.28

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/1/2010

Updated: 4/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-1324

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-4020

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-pkinit-openssl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-server-ldap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-workstation, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/30/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/2/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1323, CVE-2010-1324, CVE-2010-4020

BID: 45116, 45117, 45118

RHSA: 2010:0925

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