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Fedora 17 : krb5-1.10.2-12.fc17 (2013-8219)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66579

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update pulls in the upstream fix for a UDP ping-pong vulnerability in the kpasswd service provided by kadmind (CVE-2002-2443).

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=962531

http://www.nessus.org/u?2fe0702c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66579

File Name: fedora_2013-8219.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/24/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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: 5/15/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-2443

BID: 60008

FEDORA: 2013-8219