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'.

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: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:12, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-client-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-otp, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-doc, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-otp-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-client

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

BID: 71679, 71680, 74042, 74824

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