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SUSE SLED11 / SLES11 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2015:1282-1)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 84979
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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/
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 84979
File Name: suse_SU-2015-1282-1.nasl
Version: 2.12
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 7/24/2015
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
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-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, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:krb5-apps-clients
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