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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-5729: Security patch for krb5 (ALAS-2018-1129)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-5729: Security patch for krb5 (ALAS-2018-1129)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/06/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
01/25/2019
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or bypass a DN container check by supplying tagged data that is internal to the database module.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-krb5

References

  • ALAS-2018-1129
  • CVE-2018-5729

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