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Mageia 9 MGASA-2024-0158 critical: krb5 memory leak issues

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Calendar Grey April 30, 2024
Scroller Mageia
Recent enhancements have been implemented in Mageia's krb5 for Kerberos 5, tackling vital vulnerabilities related to memory leak problems.
Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak in /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmap_rmt.c

Summary

Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak in /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmap_rmt.c. (CVE-2024-26458) Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak vulnerability in /krb5/src/lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c. (CVE-2024-26461)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33073

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26458

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26461

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue security issue security fix critical fix memory leak krb5 Kerberos 5 Mageia Mageia 9 RPC vulnerability rpc vulnerability

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/krb5-1.20.1-1.1.mga9

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Publication date: 30 Apr 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0158.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-26458, CVE-2024-26461

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue security issue security fix critical fix memory leak krb5 Kerberos 5 Mageia Mageia 9 RPC vulnerability rpc vulnerability

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