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Oracle Linux 6 : krb5 (ELSA-2015-0794)

high Nessus Plugin ID 82689

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2015-0794 advisory.

 - fix for CVE-2014-5355 (#1193939) 'krb5: unauthenticated denial of service in recvauth_common() and others'
 - fix for CVE-2014-5353 (#1174543) 'Fix LDAP misused policy name crash'
 - 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)'

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.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0794.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82689

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2015-0794.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/10/2015

Updated: 10/23/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9421

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-5355

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/9/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5352, CVE-2014-5353, CVE-2014-5355, CVE-2014-9421, CVE-2014-9422

BID: 71679, 72494, 72495, 72496

RHSA: 2015:0794