Fedora Core 5 : krb5-1.4.3-5.5 (2007-620)

high Nessus Plugin ID 25630

Synopsis

The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.

Description

This update incorporates fixes for a stack-based buffer overflow and heap corruption in the RPC library, and a fix for a potential stack-based buffer overflow in kadmind.

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 packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?aae04fb2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 25630

File Name: fedora_2007-620.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/1/2007

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5-devel, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5-libs, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5-server, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:krb5-workstation, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora_core:5

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/28/2007

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2007-620