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ELSA-2010-0029 Critical: Enterprise Linux krb5 security update

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ELSA-2010-0029 Critical: Enterprise Linux krb5 security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
01/13/2010
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/20/2011
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Multiple integer underflows in the (1) AES and (2) RC4 decryption functionality in the crypto library in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.3 through 1.6.3, and 1.7 before 1.7.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by providing ciphertext with a length that is too short to be valid.

Solution(s)

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

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