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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2015-8629: Security patch for krb5 (ALAS-2016-691)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2015-8629: Security patch for krb5 (ALAS-2016-691)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
02/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/21/2016
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

The xdr_nullstring function in lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 does not verify whether '\0' characters exist as expected, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted string.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-krb5

References

  • ALAS-2016-691
  • DLA-423-1
  • DSA-3466
  • CVE-2015-8629

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