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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2020:0001-3 Critical: libxml2 Vulnerability Fix

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Calendar Grey November 16, 2015
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Tackling vulnerabilities in openSUSE krb5 through a crucial patch. Update through YaST or zypper to enhance system protection.
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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 security update Denial of Service krb5 openSUSE

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.1:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2015-740=1

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

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (i586 x86_64):

krb5-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-client-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-client-debuginfo-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-debuginfo-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-debugsource-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-devel-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-doc-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-mini-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-mini-debuginfo-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-mini-debugsource-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-mini-devel-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-plugin-kdb-ldap-debuginfo-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-plugin-preauth-otp-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-plugin-preauth-otp-debuginfo-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-plugin-preauth-pkinit-debuginfo-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-server-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-server-debuginfo-1.12.1-21.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64):

krb5-32bit-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-debuginfo-32bit-1.12.1-21.1

krb5-devel-32bit-1.12.1-21.1

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=948011

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-2015:1997-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.1

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