Debian DLA-37-1 : krb5 security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 82185

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in krb5, the MIT implementation of Kerberos. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

CVE-2014-4341

An unauthenticated remote attacker with the ability to inject packets into a legitimately established GSSAPI application session can cause a program crash due to invalid memory references when attempting to read beyond the end of a buffer.

CVE-2014-4342

An unauthenticated remote attacker with the ability to inject packets into a legitimately established GSSAPI application session can cause a program crash due to invalid memory references when reading beyond the end of a buffer or by causing a NULL pointer dereference.

CVE-2014-4343

An unauthenticated remote attacker with the ability to spoof packets appearing to be from a GSSAPI acceptor can cause a double-free condition in GSSAPI initiators (clients) which are using the SPNEGO mechanism, by returning a different underlying mechanism than was proposed by the initiator. A remote attacker could exploit this flaw to cause an application crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.

CVE-2014-4344

An unauthenticated or partially authenticated remote attacker can cause a NULL dereference and application crash during a SPNEGO negotiation by sending an empty token as the second or later context token from initiator to acceptor.

CVE-2014-4345

When kadmind is configured to use LDAP for the KDC database, an authenticated remote attacker can cause it to perform an out-of-bounds write (buffer overflow).

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

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2014/08/msg00012.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze-lts/krb5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 82185

File Name: debian_DLA-37.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/26/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-admin-server, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-doc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-kdc, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-kdc-ldap, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-multidev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-pkinit, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:krb5-user, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrb5-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libkrb53, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/18/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, CVE-2014-4343, CVE-2014-4344, CVE-2014-4345

BID: 68908, 68909, 69159, 69160, 69168