SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2015:1282-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 84979

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

krb5 was updated to fix three security issues.

Remote authenticated users could cause denial of service.

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).

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 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp4-krb5-201507-12004=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sdksp3-krb5-201507-12004=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for VMWare 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-krb5-201507-12004=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch slessp4-krb5-201507-12004=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch slessp3-krb5-201507-12004=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP4 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp4-krb5-201507-12004=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch sledsp3-krb5-201507-12004=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 :

zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-krb5-201507-12004=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://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/

http://www.nessus.org/u?67304285

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 84979

File Name: suse_SU-2015-1282-1.nasl

Version: 2.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/24/2015

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

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-apps-clients, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-apps-servers, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-client, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:11, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap

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: 7/10/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-5353, CVE-2014-5354, CVE-2014-5355

BID: 71679, 71680, 74042