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Fedora 21: 2015-11-24 Moderate: krb5 Multiple Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2015
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Important security release for Fedora 21's krb5 tackling several security vulnerabilities crucial for secure network communication.
krb5-1.13.2-13.fc23 - Patch CVE-2015-2698 krb5-1.12.2-19.fc21 - Patch CVE-2015-2698 krb5-1.13.2-10.fc22 - Patch CVE-2015-2698 ---- krb5-1.12.2-18.fc21 - Fix CVE-2015-2695, CVE-2...

Summary

Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system,

which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure

practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form.

Update Information:

krb5-1.13.2-13.fc23 - Patch CVE-2015-2698 krb5-1.12.2-19.fc21 - Patch CVE-2015-2698 krb5-1.13.2-10.fc22 - Patch CVE-2015-2698 ---- krb5-1.12.2-18.fc21 - Fix CVE-2015-2695, CVE-2015-2696, CVE-2015-2697 krb5-1.13.2-9.fc22 - Fix CVE-2015-2695, CVE-2015-2696, CVE-2015-2697 krb5-1.13.2-12.fc23 - Fix CVE-2015-2695, CVE-2015-2696, CVE-2015-2697

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora moderate severity krb5 authentication system network authentication multiple patches

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2015-200d2dfd9f 2015-11-24 17:50:21.420090
Name : krb5 Product : Fedora 21 Version : 1.12.2 Release : 19.fc21 URL : http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/ 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 sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form.

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update krb5' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: krb5
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.12.2
Release: 19.fc21
URL: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
Summary: The Kerberos network authentication system

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Topics Covered

security advisory Fedora moderate severity krb5 authentication system network authentication multiple patches

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