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Fedora 26: 2017-41957e0f90 Critical: Krb5 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling a significant vulnerability in Fedora 26's krb5 involving essential security patches to improve cyber defense.
Fix CVE-2017-15088 (Buffer overflow in get_matching_data())

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.

Fix CVE-2017-15088 (Buffer overflow in get_matching_data())

[ 1 ] Bug #1506622 - CVE-2017-15088 krb5: Buffer overflow in get_matching_data() [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1506622

su -c 'dnf upgrade krb5' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.15.2
Release: 4.fc26
Summary: The Kerberos network authentication system

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