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VPR Score: 3.6
Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
Description
This update for krb5 fixes the following security issue :
- CVE-2016-3119: An authenticated attacker with permission to modify a principal entry could have caused kadmind to dereference a NULL pointer by supplying an empty DB argument to the modify_principal command, if kadmind is configured to use the LDAP KDB module. (bsc#971942)
Solution
Update the affected krb5 packages.