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ELSA-2009-0408 Important: Enterprise Linux krb5 security update

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ELSA-2009-0408 Important: Enterprise Linux krb5 security update

Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Published

03/27/2009

Created

07/25/2018

Added

12/20/2011

Modified

07/04/2017

Description

The asn1_decode_generaltime function in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_decode.c in the ASN.1 GeneralizedTime decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an invalid DER encoding that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-krb5-devel
oracle-linux-upgrade-krb5-libs
oracle-linux-upgrade-krb5-server
oracle-linux-upgrade-krb5-workstation

References

https://attackerkb.com/topics/cve-2009-0844
APPLE-SA-2009-05-12
34257
34408
34409
TA09-133A
662091
CVE - 2009-0844
CVE - 2009-0845
CVE - 2009-0846
CVE - 2009-0847
OVAL10044
OVAL10694
OVAL5483
OVAL6301
OVAL6339
OVAL6387
OVAL6449
OVAL9474
RHSA-2009:0408
RHSA-2009:0409
RHSA-2009:0410
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/el-errata/2009-April/000955.html
49448

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