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RHSA-2012:0306-03 -- Redhat krb5

ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:500724Date: (C)2012-03-07   (M)2021-06-02
Class: PATCHFamily: unix




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 . It was found that ftpd, a Kerberos-aware FTP server, did not properly drop privileges. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the ftpd daemon did not check for the potential failure of the effective group ID change system call. If the group ID change failed, a remote FTP user could use this flaw to gain unauthorized read or write access to files that are owned by the root group. Red Hat would like to thank the MIT Kerberos project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Tim Zingelman as the original reporter. This update also fixes the following bugs: * Due to a mistake in the Kerberos libraries, a client could fail to contact a Key Distribution Center or terminate unexpectedly if the client had already more than 1024 file descriptors in use. This update backports modifications to the Kerberos libraries and the libraries use the poll function instead of the select function, as poll does not have this limitation. * The KDC failed to release memory when processing a TGS request from a client if the client request included an authenticator with a subkey. As a result, the KDC consumed an excessive amount of memory. With this update, the code releasing the memory has been added and the problem no longer occurs. * Under certain circumstances, if services requiring Kerberos authentication sent two authentication requests to the authenticating server, the second authentication request was flagged as a replay attack. As a result, the second authentication attempt was denied. This update applies an upstream patch that fixes this bug. * Previously, if Kerberos credentials had expired, the klist command could terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when invoked with the -s option. This happened when klist encountered and failed to process an entry with no realm name while scanning the credential cache. With this update, the underlying code has been modified and the command handles such entries correctly. * Due to a regression, multi-line FTP macros terminated prematurely with a segmentation fault. This occurred because the previously-added patch failed to properly support multi-line macros. This update restores the support for multi-line macros and the problem no longer occurs. All users of krb5 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

Platform:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Product:
krb5
Reference:
RHSA-2012:0306-03
CVE-2011-1526
CVE    1
CVE-2011-1526
CPE    2
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5
cpe:/a:mit:krb5

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