Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 7.10 / 8.04 LTS / 8.10 : krb5 vulnerabilities (USN-755-1)

Critical Nessus Plugin ID 37819

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

Multiple flaws were discovered in the Kerberos GSS-API and ASN.1 routines that did not correctly handle certain requests. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash services using the Kerberos library, leading to a denial of service.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/755-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 37819

File Name: ubuntu_USN-755-1.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2009/04/23

Updated: 2018/11/28

Dependencies: 12634

Risk Information

Risk Factor: Critical

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS2#E:ND/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-admin-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-clients, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-doc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-ftpd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-kdc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-kdc-ldap, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-rsh-server, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-telnetd, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:krb5-user, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkadm55, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkrb5-dbg, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkrb5-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkrb53, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:7.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: false

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2009/04/07

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-0844, CVE-2009-0845, CVE-2009-0846, CVE-2009-0847

BID: 34257, 34408, 34409

USN: 755-1

CWE: 20, 119, 189