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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2052-1 (krb5)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

13 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to krb5 announced via advisory DSA 2052-1.

Insight

Insight

Shawn Emery discovered that in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5), a system for authenticating users and services on a network, a null pointer dereference flaw in the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) library could allow an authenticated remote attacker to crash any server application using the GSS-API authentication mechanism, by sending a specially-crafted GSS-API token with a missing checksum field. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.1+dfsg-3. For the testing distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.1+dfsg-3. We recommend that you upgrade your krb5 packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202052-1

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