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Home > Products and services > CSIRTUK advisories > Advisories archive > July 2005 > Fedora - Two Update Notifications

July 2005

Fedora - Two Update Notifications

ID: 00574
Ref: 533/05
Date: 13 July 2005:13:17:23
Version: 1

Title: Fedora - Two Update Notifications
Abstract: 1. Fedora Core 3 Update: krb5-1.3.6-7 [FEDORA-2005-552], 2. Fedora Core 4 Update: krb5-1.4.1-5 [FEDORA-2005-553]
Vendors affected: Fedora
Operating systems affected: Fedora
Applications affected: Fedora


Title
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Fedora - Two Update Notifications:
1. Fedora Core 3 Update: krb5-1.3.6-7 [FEDORA-2005-552]
2. Fedora Core 4 Update: krb5-1.4.1-5 [FEDORA-2005-553]

Detail
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Update notification summaries:

1. Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Kerberos V5, a trusted-third-party network
authentication system, version 1.3.6, release 7.

2. Multiple vulnerabilities exist in Kerberos V5, a trusted-third-party network
authentication system, version 1.4.1, release 5.


Update notification content follows:


1.


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-552
2005-07-12
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : krb5
Version : 1.3.6
Release : 7
Summary : The Kerberos network authentication system.
Description :
Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system,
which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure
practice of cleartext passwords.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:

A double-free flaw was found in the krb5_recvauth() routine which may be triggered
by a remote unauthenticated attacker. Fedora Core 3 contains checks within glibc
that detect double-free flaws. Therefore, on Fedora Core 3, successful exploitation
of this issue can only lead to a denial of service (KDC crash). The Common
Vulnerabilities and Exposures project assigned the name CAN-2005-1689 to this issue.

Daniel Wachdorf discovered a single byte heap overflow in the krb5_unparse_name()
function, part of krb5-libs. Successful exploitation of this flaw would lead to a
denial of service (crash). To trigger this flaw remotely, an attacker would need to
have control of a kerberos realm that shares a cross-realm key with the target, making
exploitation of this flaw unlikely. (CAN-2005-1175).

Daniel Wachdorf also discovered that in error conditions that may occur in response to
correctly-formatted client requests, the Kerberos 5 KDC may attempt to free
uninitialized memory. This could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service
(KDC crash) (CAN-2005-1174).

GaAhandle messages from a server. An attacker could construct a malicious telnet server that
collects information from the environment of any victim who connects to it using the
Kerberos-aware telnet client (CAN-2005-0488).

The rcp protocol allows a server to instruct a client to write to arbitrary files outside
of the current directory. This could potentially cause a security issue if a user uses
the Kerberos-aware rcp to copy files from a malicious server (CAN-2004-0175).
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Wed Jun 29 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai 1.3.6-7

- - fix telnet client environment variable disclosure the same way NetKit's
telnet client did (CAN-2005-0488) (#159305)
- - keep apps which call krb5_principal_compare() or krb5_realm_compare() with
malformed or NULL principal structures from crashing outright (Thomas Biege)
(#161475)

* Tue Jun 28 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai

- - apply fixes from draft of MIT-KRB5-SA-2005-002 (CAN-2005-1174,CAN-2005-1175)
(#157104)
- - apply fixes from draft of MIT-KRB5-SA-2005-003 (CAN-2005-1689) (#159755)

* Fri Jun 24 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai 1.3.6-6

- - fix double-close in keytab handling
- - add port of fixes for CAN-2004-0175 to krb5-aware rcp (#151612)


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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

bbda806f94b4d1833d9fd884844f43da SRPMS/krb5-1.3.6-7.src.rpm
1d9290dc2b92c62cebdd46ff27ed26f4 x86_64/krb5-devel-1.3.6-7.x86_64.rpm
1ee1d026aabc242677f91dccdf94558b x86_64/krb5-libs-1.3.6-7.x86_64.rpm
a31aad264eeecd22a73e5dc1ddc9ed77 x86_64/krb5-server-1.3.6-7.x86_64.rpm
87f60cb9bf65e7aeaa766ae33ff6a83c x86_64/krb5-workstation-1.3.6-7.x86_64.rpm
1a8bc195545e1bd5d9de79efae04fb38 x86_64/debug/krb5-debuginfo-1.3.6-7.x86_64.rpm
efa02df806c2730d4aadf47ea9502dfc x86_64/krb5-libs-1.3.6-7.i386.rpm
6c8f97b7bd66f752f60ee3e974613424 i386/krb5-devel-1.3.6-7.i386.rpm
efa02df806c2730d4aadf47ea9502dfc i386/krb5-libs-1.3.6-7.i386.rpm
681ebd995cce6cf33adcafc6c8d2f1f7 i386/krb5-server-1.3.6-7.i386.rpm
2f999eff92ca4885ba38dfc6b00286c9 i386/krb5-workstation-1.3.6-7.i386.rpm
a32f85ca5a135626840d0034f407b39d i386/debug/krb5-debuginfo-1.3.6-7.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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2.




- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2005-553
2005-07-12
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------

Product : Fedora Core 4
Name : krb5
Version : 1.4.1
Release : 5
Summary : The Kerberos network authentication system.
Description :
Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system,
which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure
practice of cleartext passwords.

- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Update Information:

A double-free flaw was found in the krb5_recvauth() routine which may be triggered by a
remote unauthenticated attacker. Fedora Core 4 contains checks within glibc that detect
double-free flaws. Therefore, on Fedora Core 4, successful exploitation of this issue can
only lead to a denial of service (KDC crash). The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures
project assigned the name CAN-2005-1689 to this issue.

Daniel Wachdorf discovered a single byte heap overflow in the krb5_unparse_name() function,
part of krb5-libs. Successful exploitation of this flaw would lead to a denial of service
(crash). To trigger this flaw remotely, an attacker would need to have control of a kerberos
realm that shares a cross-realm key with the target, making exploitation of this flaw unlikely.
(CAN-2005-1175).

Daniel Wachdorf also discovered that in error conditions that may occur in response to
correctly-formatted client requests, the Kerberos 5 KDC may attempt to free uninitialized memory.
This could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (KDC crash) (CAN-2005-1174).

GaA messages from a server. An attacker could construct a malicious telnet server that collects
information from the environment of any victim who connects to it using the Kerberos-aware
telnet client (CAN-2005-0488).

The rcp protocol allows a server to instruct a client to write to arbitrary files outside of the
current directory. This could potentially cause a security issue if a user uses the Kerberos-aware
rcp to copy files from a malicious server (CAN-2004-0175).
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
* Wed Jun 29 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai 1.4.1-5

- - fix telnet client environment variable disclosure the same way NetKit's
telnet client did (CAN-2005-0488) (#159305)
- - keep apps which call krb5_principal_compare() or krb5_realm_compare() with
malformed or NULL principal structures from crashing outright (Thomas Biege)
(#161475)

* Tue Jun 28 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai

- - apply fixes from draft of MIT-KRB5-SA-2005-002 (CAN-2005-1174,CAN-2005-1175)
(#157104)
- - apply fixes from draft of MIT-KRB5-SA-2005-003 (CAN-2005-1689) (#159755)

* Fri Jun 24 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai 1.4.1-4

- - fix double-close in keytab handling
- - add port of fixes for CAN-2004-0175 to krb5-aware rcp (#151612)

* Fri May 13 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai 1.4.1-3

- - prevent spurious EBADF in krshd when stdin is closed by the client while
the command is running (#151111)

* Fri May 13 2005 Martin Stransky 1.4.1-2

- - add deadlock patch, removed old patch

* Fri May 6 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai 1.4.1-1

- - update to 1.4.1, incorporating fixes for CAN-2005-0468 and CAN-2005-0469
- - when starting the KDC or kadmind, if KRB5REALM is set via the /etc/sysconfig
file for the service, pass it as an argument for the -r flag


- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/

e04410b41cb3e1ca5c5de361932d4f43 SRPMS/krb5-1.4.1-5.src.rpm
84ec58abea3e00d6ce09d9fa17bdec44 ppc/krb5-devel-1.4.1-5.ppc.rpm
3b036b4aebe92579c7b0553c6a943c9c ppc/krb5-libs-1.4.1-5.ppc.rpm
4ef4aae46285b2cc7ec2123175dc65d3 ppc/krb5-server-1.4.1-5.ppc.rpm
236c23aa99713ffbcd375be4418a629c ppc/krb5-workstation-1.4.1-5.ppc.rpm
72a70fe522d9945d62acff3b6d62e9c4 ppc/debug/krb5-debuginfo-1.4.1-5.ppc.rpm
819d79e1b3fbd06de75cae397f00c80e ppc/krb5-libs-1.4.1-5.ppc64.rpm
41a16309bae5f43caf50a9c34493c2a9 x86_64/krb5-devel-1.4.1-5.x86_64.rpm
5a733f5e5d35045e4efd44106d36fb5f x86_64/krb5-libs-1.4.1-5.x86_64.rpm
5da17e3e77e3a73ddbb9d68516cf084e x86_64/krb5-server-1.4.1-5.x86_64.rpm
53738638e418c3aba25c0a344e67d0d2 x86_64/krb5-workstation-1.4.1-5.x86_64.rpm
4f7310c5758bd32432db538f5008577d x86_64/debug/krb5-debuginfo-1.4.1-5.x86_64.rpm
e35d87893a9b3b22eb15246a4cc88046 x86_64/krb5-libs-1.4.1-5.i386.rpm
2a5f503e74207349f137d1aaf039879c i386/krb5-devel-1.4.1-5.i386.rpm
e35d87893a9b3b22eb15246a4cc88046 i386/krb5-libs-1.4.1-5.i386.rpm
c6578a1a24fbaf3da0b7724445fdb675 i386/krb5-server-1.4.1-5.i386.rpm
0317f834d5795dbaf9f531ef747d181b i386/krb5-workstation-1.4.1-5.i386.rpm
ec1e81cad1d4365febcff9df32be2375 i386/debug/krb5-debuginfo-1.4.1-5.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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