Fedora 27: Security Update Notification for Krb5 Critical Buffer Overflow

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()) ---- Remove

build dependency on python-pyrad. It is only used on the test suite, and we

gracefully skip the tests if it is not present.

[ 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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