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Fedora 15 : krb5-appl-1.0.1-8.fc15 (2011-17492)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 57442

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update incorporates the upstream patch to fix a buffer overflow in the Kerberos-aware telnet server.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected krb5-appl package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=770325

http://www.nessus.org/u?e3c12db6

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 57442

File Name: fedora_2011-17492.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/6/2012

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5-appl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:15

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/27/2011

Exploitable With

Core Impact

Metasploit (Linux BSD-derived Telnet Service Encryption Key ID Buffer Overflow)

ExploitHub (EH-11-760)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-4862

BID: 51182

FEDORA: 2011-17492