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Amazon Linux 2 : krb5 (ALAS-2018-1129)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119784

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to circumvent a DN containership check by supplying both a 'linkdn' and 'containerdn' database argument, or by supplying a DN string which is a left extension of a container DN string but is not hierarchically within the container DN.(CVE-2018-5730)

MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or bypass a DN container check by supplying tagged data that is internal to the database module.(CVE-2018-5729)

Solution

Run 'yum update krb5' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2/ALAS-2018-1129.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119784

File Name: al2_ALAS-2018-1129.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/20/2018

Updated: 3/27/2020

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-server-ldap, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:krb5-workstation, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:libkadm5, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-5729, CVE-2018-5730

ALAS: 2018-1129