The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0439 advisory.

    - fix for CVE-2014-5352 (#1179856) 'gss_process_context_token()       incorrectly frees context (MITKRB5-SA-2015-001)'
    - fix for CVE-2014-9421 (#1179857) 'kadmind doubly frees partial       deserialization results (MITKRB5-SA-2015-001)'
    - fix for CVE-2014-9422 (#1179861) 'kadmind incorrectly       validates server principal name (MITKRB5-SA-2015-001)'
    - fix for CVE-2014-9423 (#1179863) 'libgssrpc server applications       leak uninitialized bytes (MITKRB5-SA-2015-001)'
    - fix for CVE-2014-5354 (#1174546) 'krb5: NULL pointer       dereference when using keyless entries'
    - fix for CVE-2014-5353 (#1174543) 'Fix LDAP misused policy       name crash'
    - update to 1.12.2
      - drop patch for RT#7820, fixed in 1.12.2
      - drop patch for #231147, fixed as RT#3277 in 1.12.2
      - drop patch for RT#7818, fixed in 1.12.2
      - drop patch for RT#7836, fixed in 1.12.2
      - drop patch for RT#7858, fixed in 1.12.2
      - drop patch for RT#7924, fixed in 1.12.2
      - drop patch for RT#7926, fixed in 1.12.2
      - drop patches for CVE-2014-4341/CVE-2014-4342, included in 1.12.2
      - drop patch for CVE-2014-4343, included in 1.12.2
      - drop patch for CVE-2014-4344, included in 1.12.2
      - drop patch for CVE-2014-4345, included in 1.12.2
    - incorporate fix for MITKRB5-SA-2014-001 (CVE-2014-4345)
    - gssapi: pull in upstream fix for a possible NULL dereference       in spnego (CVE-2014-4344)
    - gssapi: pull in proposed fix for a double free in initiators (David       Woodhouse, CVE-2014-4343, #1117963)
    - pull in fix for denial of service by injection of malformed GSSAPI tokens       (CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, #1116181)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Oracle Linux 7 : krb5 (ELSA-2015-0439)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 81805

Version 1.18

Version 1.17

Version 1.18 Nov 1, 2024, 11:44 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin Feed: 202411012344
Version 1.17 Oct 22, 2024, 9:14 PM CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 score" set to 10.0) CVSS metrics ("CVSSv3 vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H") CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C") CVSSv2 score source (set to "CVE-2014-9421") CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2014-4345") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202410222114