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Oracle Solaris Third-Party Patch Update : kerberos (multiple_buffer_errors_vulnerabilities_in4)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80656

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Synopsis

The remote Solaris system is missing a security patch for third-party software.

Description

The remote Solaris system is missing necessary patches to address security updates :

 - MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session. (CVE-2014-4341)

 - MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read or NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session. (CVE-2014-4342)

Solution

Upgrade to Solaris 11.2.5.5.0.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?4a913f44

http://www.nessus.org/u?7d4bcb91

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80656

File Name: solaris11_kerberos_20141216.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 1/19/2015

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:oracle:solaris:11.2, p-cpe:/a:oracle:solaris:kerberos

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Solaris11/release, Host/Solaris11/pkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 12/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342