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SUSE SLES12 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2015:1276-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 84914
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Synopsis
The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.Description
krb5 was updated to fix four security issues.These security issues were fixed :
- CVE-2014-5353: NULL pointer dereference when using a ticket policy name as password name (bsc#910457).
- CVE-2014-5354: NULL pointer dereference when using keyless entries (bsc#910458).
- CVE-2014-5355: Denial of service in krb5_read_message (bsc#918595).
- CVE-2015-2694: OTP and PKINIT kdcpreauth modules leading to requires_preauth bypass (bsc#928978).
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-335=1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 :
zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-2015-335=1
To bring your system up-to-date, use 'zypper patch'.
See Also
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910457
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=910458
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=918595
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=928978
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5353/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5354/
https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-5355/
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 84914
File Name: suse_SU-2015-1276-1.nasl
Version: 2.14
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/22/2015
Updated: 1/6/2021
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.8
Temporal Score: 4.3
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-otp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-otp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-server-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2014
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2014-5353, CVE-2014-5354, CVE-2014-5355, CVE-2015-2694