Ubuntu 9.10 / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : krb5 vulnerability (USN-1116-1)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 55074

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Felipe Ortega discovered that kadmind did not correctly handle password changing error conditions. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this to crash kadmind, leading to a denial of service.

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Solution

Update the affected krb5-admin-server package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/1116-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 55074

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1116-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/13/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-admin-server, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:9.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0285

BID: 47310

USN: 1116-1