CentOS 5 / 6 : krb5 (CESA-2013:0942)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 66888

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated krb5 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and a trusted third-party, the Key Distribution Center (KDC).

It was found that kadmind's kpasswd service did not perform any validation on incoming network packets, causing it to reply to all requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send spoofed packets to a kpasswd service that appear to come from kadmind on a different server, causing the services to keep replying packets to each other, consuming network bandwidth and CPU. (CVE-2002-2443)

All krb5 users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the updated packages, the krb5kdc and kadmind daemons will be restarted automatically.

Solution

Update the affected krb5 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 66888

File Name: centos_RHSA-2013-0942.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: CentOS Local Security Checks

Published: 6/14/2013

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2002-2443

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-workstation, cpe:/o:centos:centos:6, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-pkinit-openssl, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-server, cpe:/o:centos:centos:5, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:krb5-server-ldap

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/13/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/29/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-2443

BID: 60008

RHSA: 2013:0942

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