Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : krb5 vulnerabilities (USN-1233-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 56556

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Nalin Dahyabhai, Andrej Ota and Kyle Moffett discovered a NULL pointer dereference in the KDC LDAP backend. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This issue affected Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2011-1527)

Mark Deneen discovered that an assert() could be triggered in the krb5_ldap_lockout_audit() function in the KDC LDAP backend and the krb5_db2_lockout_audit() function in the KDC DB2 backend. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1528)

It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference could occur in the lookup_lockout_policy() function in the KDC LDAP and DB2 backends. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1529).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected krb5-kdc and / or krb5-kdc-ldap packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 56556

File Name: ubuntu_USN-1233-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Ubuntu Local Security Checks

Published: 10/19/2011

Updated: 9/19/2019

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-kdc, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-kdc-ldap, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/20/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1527, CVE-2011-1528, CVE-2011-1529

BID: 50273

USN: 1233-1

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