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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-1225
2011-02-09 19:50:05
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Name : krb5
Product : Fedora 14
Version : 1.8.2
Release : 8.fc14
URL :
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
Summary : The Kerberos network authentication system
Description :
Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system,
which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure
practice of cleartext passwords.
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Update Information:
This update incorporates fixes from upstream advisories MITKRB5-SA-2011-001 (standalone kpropd exits if a per-client child exits with an error) and MITKRB5-SA-2011-002 (uninitialized pointer crash in the KDC, hang or crash in the KDC with the LDAP backend).
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Feb 8 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.8.2-8
- add upstream patches to fix standalone kpropd exiting if the per-client
child process exits with an error (MITKRB5-SA-2011-001), and a hang or
crash in the KDC when using the LDAP kdb backend (MITKRB5-SA-2011-002)
(CVE-2010-4022, #664009, CVE-2011-0281, #668719, CVE-2011-0282, #668726)
* Tue Nov 30 2010 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.8.2-7
- pull up 1.8.2/1.8.3 libk5crypto changes to correct the patch context
- add upstream patch to fix various issues from MITKRB5-SA-2010-007
(CVE-2010-1323, #648734, CVE-2010-1324, #648674, CVE-2010-4020, #648735)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #664009 - CVE-2010-4022 krb5: kpropd unexpected termination on invalid input (MITKRB5-SA-2011-001)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=664009
[ 2 ] Bug #668719 - CVE-2011-0281 krb5: KDC hang when using LDAP backend caused by special principal name (MITKRB5-SA-2011-002)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668719
[ 3 ] Bug #668726 - CVE-2011-0282 krb5: KDC crash when using LDAP backend caused by a special principal name (MITKRB5-SA-2011-002)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668726
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update krb5' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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