Advisories » MGASA-2015-0119

Updated krb5 package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 27 Mar 2015
Modification date: 09 Jul 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-5355

Description

MIT Kerberos 5 through 1.13.1 incorrectly expects that a krb5_read_message
data field is represented as a string ending with a '\0' character, which
allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer
dereference) via a zero-byte version string or cause a denial of service
(out-of-bounds read) by omitting the '\0' character, related to
appl/user_user/server.c and lib/krb5/krb/recvauth.c (CVE-2014-5355).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15542
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00061.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5355

SRPMS

4/core

• krb5-1.11.4-1.5.mga4