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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 RHSA-2013:0656-01 Moderate Krb5 DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey March 18, 2013
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest advisory from Red Hat reveals a moderate kerberos5 security update tackling significant vulnerabilities in RHEL 6. Keep updated!
Updated krb5 packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Summary

Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and a trusted third-party, the Key Distribution Center (KDC).
When a client attempts to use PKINIT to obtain credentials from the KDC, the client can specify, using an issuer and serial number, which of the KDC's possibly-many certificates the client has in its possession, as a hint to the KDC that it should use the corresponding key to sign its response. If that specification was malformed, the KDC could attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (CVE-2013-1415)
When a client attempts to use PKINIT to obtain credentials from the KDC, the client will typically format its request to conform to the specification published in RFC 4556. For interoperability reasons, clients and servers also provide support for an older, draft version of that specification. If a client formatted its request to conform to this older version of the specification, with a non-default key agreement option, it could cause the KDC to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer and crash. (CVE-2012-1016)
All krb5 users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the updated packages, the krb5kdc daemon will be restarted automatically.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-1016 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1415 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4556

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6):
Source:
i386: krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-libs-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-pkinit-openssl-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-workstation-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm
x86_64: krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm krb5-libs-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-libs-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm krb5-pkinit-openssl-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm krb5-workstation-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6):
Source:
i386: krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-devel-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-server-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-server-ldap-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm
x86_64: krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm krb5-devel-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-devel-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm krb5-server-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm krb5-server-ldap-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-server-ldap-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6):
Source:
x86_64: krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm krb5-libs-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.i686.rpm krb5-libs-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm krb5-pkinit-openssl-1.10.3-10.el6_4.1.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2013:0656-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue date: 2013-03-18

Topic

Updated krb5 packages that fix two security issues are now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6.The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderatesecurity impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores,which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE links in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) - i386, ppc64, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) - i386, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

914749 - CVE-2013-1415 krb5: PKINIT null pointer deref leads to DoS (pkinit_check_kdc_pkid())

917840 - CVE-2012-1016 krb5: PKINIT null pointer deref leads to DoS

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