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SUSE: 2015:1898-2 Important: krb5 Process Crash Advisory

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Calendar Grey November 17, 2015
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SUSE Security Notification for krb5 addressed severe vulnerabilities. Key notice: SUSE-SU-2015:1899-3.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Summary

krb5 was updated to fix one security issue. This security issue was 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). Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE Security Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3: zypper in -t patch dbgsp3-krb5-12185=1 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64): krb5-debuginfo-1.6.3-133.49.97.1 krb5-debugsource-1.6.3-133.49.97.1 - SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3 (ppc64 s390x x86_64):

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory critical krb5 SUSE Linux process crash

References

#952188

Cross- CVE-2015-2695

Affected Products:

SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3

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

https://bugzilla.suse.com/952188

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2015:1898-2
Rating: important

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical krb5 SUSE Linux process crash

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