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Fedora 16 : krb5-1.9.3-2.fc16 (2012-8803)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 59485

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update incorporates the upstream fix to correct a possible NULL pointer dereference in kadmind (CVE-2012-1013).

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=827517

http://www.nessus.org/u?3b5319ea

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 59485

File Name: fedora_2012-8803.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/14/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:16

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/2/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1013

BID: 53784

FEDORA: 2012-8803