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Alpine: krb5: security update to 1.20.3-r0

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 408463

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can modify the plaintext Extra Count field of a
 confidential GSS krb5 wrap token, causing the unwrapped token to appear truncated to the application.
 (CVE-2024-37370)

 - In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can cause invalid memory reads during GSS message
 token handling by sending message tokens with invalid length fields. (CVE-2024-37371)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-37370

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2024-37371

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 408463

Version: Revision 1.14

Type: Local

Published: 6/30/2024

Updated: 10/27/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.56

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-37371

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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: 6/28/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-37370, CVE-2024-37371