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SUSE: krb5 Moderate Spoofing Risk Advisory 2025:3698-1 CVE-2025-3576

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Calendar Grey October 21, 2025
Dist Suse Esm H88
Update for krb5 addresses MD5 checksum design flaw, improves security. Recommended installation methods provided.
* bsc#1241219 Cross-References: * CVE-2025-3576

Summary

## This update for krb5 fixes the following issues: * CVE-2025-3576: weakness in the MD5 checksum design allows for spoofing of GSSAPI-protected messages that are using RC4-HMAC-MD5 (bsc#1241219). Krb5 as very old protocol supported quite a number of ciphers that are not longer up to current cryptographic standards. To avoid problems with those, SUSE has by default now disabled those alorithms. The following algorithms have been removed from valid krb5 enctypes: * des3-cbc-sha1 * arcfour-hmac-md5 To reenable those algorithms, you can use allow options in krb5.conf: [libdefaults] allow_des3 = true allow_rc4 = true to reenable them. ## Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

References

* bsc#1241219

Cross-

* CVE-2025-3576

CVSS scores:

* CVE-2025-3576 ( SUSE ): 8.2

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

* CVE-2025-3576 ( SUSE ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

* CVE-2025-3576 ( NVD ): 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected Products:

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 LTSS Extended Security

* SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5

An update that solves one vulnerability can now be installed.

##

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-3576.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241219

Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2025:3698-1
Release Date: 2025-10-21T10:07:22Z
Rating: moderate

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