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openSUSE 13.2: 2015:1928-1 Important: krb5 Critical Issues

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Calendar Grey November 6, 2015
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A critical vulnerability patch has just been released for krb5 on openSUSE, resolving several significant security concerns.
An update that fixes three vulnerabilities is now available

Description

krb5 was updated to fix three security issues.

These security issues were fixed:

- CVE-2015-2695: Applications which call gss_inquire_context() on a

partially-established SPNEGO context could have caused the GSS-API

library to read from a pointer using the wrong type, generally causing a

process crash. (bsc#952188).

- CVE-2015-2696: Applications which call gss_inquire_context() on a

partially-established IAKERB context could have caused the GSS-API

library to read from a pointer using the wrong type, generally causing a

process crash. (bsc#952189).

- CVE-2015-2697: Incorrect string handling in build_principal_va can lead

to DOS (bsc#952190).

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue DoS threat krb5 openSUSE patch instructions

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE 13.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-709=1

- openSUSE 13.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-709=1

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE 13.2 (i586 x86_64):

krb5-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-client-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-client-debuginfo-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-debuginfo-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-debugsource-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-devel-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-doc-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-mini-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-mini-debuginfo-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-mini-debugsource-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-mini-devel-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-debuginfo-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-plugin-preauth-otp-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-plugin-preauth-otp-debuginfo-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit-debuginfo-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-server-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-server-debuginfo-1.12.2-15.1

- openSUSE 13.2 (x86_64):

krb5-32bit-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-debuginfo-32bit-1.12.2-15.1

krb5-devel-32bit-1.12.2-15.1

- openSUSE 13.1 (i586 x86_64):

krb5-1.11.3-3.21.1

krb5-client-1.11.3-3.21.1

krb5-client-debuginfo-1.11.3-3.21.1

krb5-debuginfo-1.11.3-3.21.1

krb5-debugsource-1.11.3-3.21.1

krb5-devel-1.11.3-3.21.1

krb5-doc-1.11.3-3.21.1

krb5-mini-1.11.3-3.21.1

krb5-mini-debuginfo-1.11.3-3.21.1

krb5-mini-debugsour...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2695.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2696.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-2697.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952188

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952189

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=952190

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2015:1928-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE 13.2 openSUSE 13.1 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical issue DoS threat krb5 openSUSE patch instructions

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