Package name krb5
Date March 19th, 2008
Advisory ID MDVSA-2008:071
Affected versions CS3.0, MNF2.0
Synopsis Updated Kerberos packages fix multiple vulnerabilities

Problem Description

A flaw was discovered in how the Kerberos krb5kdc handled Kerberos v4
protocol packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this
flaw to crash the krb5kdc daemon, disclose portions of its memory,
or possibly %execute arbitrary code using malformed or truncated
Kerberos v4 protocol requests (CVE-2008-0062, CVE-2008-0063).

This issue only affects krb5kdc when it has Kerberos v4 protocol
compatibility enabled, which is a compiled-in default in all
Kerberos versions that Mandriva Linux ships prior to Mandriva
Linux 2008.0. Kerberos v4 protocol support can be disabled by
adding v4_mode=none (without quotes) to the [kdcdefaults] section
of /etc/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf.

The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.

Updated Packages

Corporate Server 3.0

 d671c7e0f68642556b1ba5a33d26eaf8  corporate/3.0/i586/ftp-client-krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 9e5a2591cee10ed62948f6d30e836863  corporate/3.0/i586/ftp-server-krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 7e8fc318772ff7dcd22f5b1c81bbfe6d  corporate/3.0/i586/krb5-server-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 45838af9454ffc5f6c06a505b4468c83  corporate/3.0/i586/krb5-workstation-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 fbdb6f71d9e2a939bbea33312b74c998  corporate/3.0/i586/libkrb51-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 50f964ee10fc744553a862c918913b03  corporate/3.0/i586/libkrb51-devel-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 667270f39306bd837b08b310a189f75d  corporate/3.0/i586/telnet-client-krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm
 a5a4a1a64c14164e1755ad37e35cf99d  corporate/3.0/i586/telnet-server-krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.i586.rpm 
 07535be43a1e339a0ba69cc167fbb530  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.src.rpm

Corporate Server 3.0/X86_64

 0f693533eea0d49c60b20c40e6b5a872  corporate/3.0/x86_64/ftp-client-krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 061429249b1cc62647c3a95d6b2a3d8b  corporate/3.0/x86_64/ftp-server-krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 bda82007dd59af28240d51ca020370d1  corporate/3.0/x86_64/krb5-server-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 9d7e810eacfc17774ee33a438cdc196d  corporate/3.0/x86_64/krb5-workstation-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 b4abcda997c06b142bbae27cf3e617ef  corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64krb51-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 e3692fe347ec21c7fd25a581ef817d66  corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64krb51-devel-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 c5da9da1f3aa15a0966f8d1644748340  corporate/3.0/x86_64/telnet-client-krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
 fd9ff563b0d3d58705eb3b2b4aeebc11  corporate/3.0/x86_64/telnet-server-krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm 
 07535be43a1e339a0ba69cc167fbb530  corporate/3.0/SRPMS/krb5-1.3-6.10.C30mdk.src.rpm

Multi Network Firewall 2.0

 fa4c3506c056e55862b4db41e134db1c  mnf/2.0/i586/libkrb51-1.3-6.10.M20mdk.i586.rpm 
 5c5caff1487f3284ba0c9529a831405e  mnf/2.0/SRPMS/krb5-1.3-6.10.M20mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0062
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0063
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2008-001.txt

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