RHSA-2011:0447: krb5 security update
Description
Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients andservers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and atrusted third-party, the Key Distribution Center (KDC).An invalid free flaw was found in the password-changing capability of theMIT Kerberos administration daemon, kadmind. A remote, unauthenticatedattacker could use this flaw to cause kadmind to abort via aspecially-crafted request. (CVE-2011-0285)All krb5 users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain abackported patch to correct this issue. After installing the updatedpackages, the kadmind daemon will be restarted automatically.
Solution(s)
- redhat-upgrade-krb5-debuginfo
- redhat-upgrade-krb5-devel
- redhat-upgrade-krb5-libs
- redhat-upgrade-krb5-pkinit-openssl
- redhat-upgrade-krb5-server
- redhat-upgrade-krb5-server-ldap
- redhat-upgrade-krb5-workstation
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