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RockyLinux 8 : krb5 (RLSA-2025:2722)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235563

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RLSA-2025:2722 advisory.

 Kerberos is a network authentication system, which can improve the security of your network by eliminating the insecure practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form. It allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other with the help of a trusted third party, the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC).

 Security Fix:

 * CVE-2025-24528 krb5: overflow when calculating ulog block size

 Bug fix:

 * kdb5_util: fix DB entry flags on modification

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2025:2722

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2342796

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235563

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2025-2722.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 5/7/2025

Updated: 5/7/2025

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-24528

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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:rocky:linux:libkadm5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-workstation-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-devel-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-libs-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-server-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-server-ldap-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-pkinit, cpe:/o:rocky:linux:8, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-server-ldap, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-workstation, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-pkinit-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:krb5-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:libkadm5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/12/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-24528