vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-3119: Security patch for krb5 (ALAS-2017-793)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 25, 2016
Added
Feb 7, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

The process_db_args function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the LDAP KDB module in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.13.4 and 1.14.x through 1.14.1 mishandles the DB argument, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted request to modify a principal.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-krb5
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