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Fedora 23 FEDORA-2016-d9d394d999 Moderate Kadmin Security Update

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2016
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Critical patch for Fedora 23 tackling vulnerabilities in kadmin to improve the security of network authentication protocols.
Fix three kadmin vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-8629, CVE-2015-8630, CVE-2015-8631

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:

Fix three kadmin vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-8629, CVE-2015-8630, CVE-2015-8631

Change Log

References

Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2016-d9d394d999 2016-01-31 04:09:09.738943
Name : krb5 Product : Fedora 23 Version : 1.14 Release : 7.fc23 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 23
Version: 1.14
Release: 7.fc23
Summary: The Kerberos network authentication system

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