RHEL 5 : krb5 (RHSA-2009:0408)

high Nessus Plugin ID 36112

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for krb5.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2009:0408 advisory.

- krb5: buffer over-read in SPNEGO GSS-API mechanism (MITKRB5-SA-2009-001) (CVE-2009-0844)

- krb5: NULL pointer dereference in GSSAPI SPNEGO (MITKRB5-SA-2009-001) (CVE-2009-0845)

- krb5: ASN.1 decoder can free uninitialized pointer when decoding an invalid encoding (MITKRB5-SA-2009-002) (CVE-2009-0846)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL krb5 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2009:0408.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 36112

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2009-0408.nasl

Version: 1.25

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/8/2009

Updated: 4/24/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-0846

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2009-0845

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5-workstation, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:krb5

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/7/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0844, CVE-2009-0845, CVE-2009-0846

CWE: 416, 476

RHSA: 2009:0408

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