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Alpine: krb5: security update to 1.14-r2

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 405090

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - The process_db_args function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the LDAP KDB module in
 kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.13.4 and 1.14.x through 1.14.1 mishandles the DB argument,
 which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon
 crash) via a crafted request to modify a principal. (CVE-2016-3119)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2016-3119

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 405090

Version: Revision 1.24

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 3/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3119

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/14/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3119

BID: 85392