Fedora 17 : krb5-1.10.2-6.fc17 (2012-11388)

high Nessus Plugin ID 61425

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update incorporates the upstream fixes for CVE-2012-1014 and CVE-2012-1015, in which the KDC could be made to attempt to dereference or free an uninitialized pointer.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 61425

File Name: fedora_2012-11388.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 8/6/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:17

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/1/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1014, CVE-2012-1015

BID: 54750

FEDORA: 2012-11388

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