Fedora 27 krb5 Security Update: CVE-2018-5729 Low Impact Issues

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-2018-5729, CVE-2018-5730. These are low-impact, requiring

administrator access to exploit. ---- Fix leak in previous version. ----Always read config snippets in alphabetical order per-directory.

[ 1 ] Bug #1535576 - CVE-2018-5729, CVE-2018-5730 krb5: null pointer deference in strlen function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1535576

[ 2 ] Bug #1540939 - krb5-libs are leaking memory when parsing krb5 configuration

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1540939

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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