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EulerOS Virtualization 2.5.1 : krb5 (EulerOS-SA-2018-1376)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 119067
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS Virtualization host is missing a security update.Description
According to the version of the krb5 packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :- A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in MIT Kerberos kadmind service. An authenticated attacker with permission to modify a principal entry could use this flaw to cause kadmind to dereference a NULL pointer and crash by supplying an empty DB argument to the modify_principal command, if kadmind was configured to use the LDAP KDB module. (CVE-2016-3119)
Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.
Solution
Update the affected krb5 package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 119067
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2018-1376.nasl
Version: 1.6
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 11/21/2018
Updated: 4/8/2021
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.6
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 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
CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:krb5-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:krb5-workstation, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:uvp:2.5.1
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2018
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2016-3119