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Fedora 32: 2020-27b577ab23 Critical: krb5 DoS ASN.1 Parsing

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- Fix CVE-2020-28196 (DoS in ASN.1 parsing due to missing recursion depth checks) - fc32 + fc33 only: pull-up to rawhide

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-2020-28196 (DoS in ASN.1 parsing due to missing recursion depth

checks) - fc32 + fc33 only: pull-up to rawhide

* Thu Nov 5 2020 Robbie Harwood - 1.18.2-29

- Add recursion limit for ASN.1 indefinite lengths (CVE-2020-28196)

* Fri Oct 23 2020 Robbie Harwood - 1.18.2-28

- Fix minor static analysis defects

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2020-27b577ab23' 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 32
Version: 1.18.2
Release: 29.fc32
Summary: The Kerberos network authentication system

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