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Fedora 29 krb5 Security Update: Improved Memory Management Issues

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Calendar Grey January 8, 2019
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Improve krb5 security in Fedora by addressing memset hygiene issues affecting remote authentication systems.
Improve memset hygiene in one location.

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.

Improve memset hygiene in one location.

* Fri Jan 4 2019 Robbie Harwood - 1.16.1-24

- Address some optimized-out memset() calls

* Fri Dec 28 2018 Adam Williamson - 1.16.1-23

- Disable patch from -20 again (rharwood re-enabled it in -22, and

it immediately broke FreeIPA again)

* Thu Dec 20 2018 Robbie Harwood - 1.16.1-22

- Remove incorrect KDC assertion (CVE-2018-20217)

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-d2cb69f11e' 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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 29
Version: 1.16.1
Release: 24.fc29
Summary: The Kerberos network authentication system

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