Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : krb5 (MDVSA-2010:100)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 46678

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

A vulnerability has been found and corrected in krb5 :

Certain invalid GSS-API tokens can cause a GSS-API acceptor (server) to crash due to a NULL pointer dereference in the GSS-API library (CVE-2010-1321).

Packages for 2008.0 and 2009.0 are provided due to the Extended Maintenance Program for those products.

The updated packages have been patched to correct this issue.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-005.txt

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 46678

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2010-100.nasl

Version: 1.20

Type: local

Published: 5/20/2010

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ftp-client-krb5, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:ftp-server-krb5, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:krb5, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:krb5-workstation, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64krb53, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64krb53-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libkrb53, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:libkrb53-devel, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:telnet-client-krb5, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:telnet-server-krb5, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2008.0, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.0, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2009.1, cpe:/o:mandriva:linux:2010.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/Mandrake/release, Host/Mandrake/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-1321

BID: 40235

MDVSA: 2010:100