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FreeBSD Ports: krb5
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
FreeBSD Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
5.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
16 years ago
Modified
Modified
7 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following package is affected: krb5 CVE-2004-0644 The asn1buf_skiptail function in the ASN.1 decoder library for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2 through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain BER encoding.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2004-003-asn1.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/bd60922b-fb8d-11d8-a13e-000a95bc6fae.html