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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2015-8630) ELSA-2016-0532: krb5 security update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2015-8630) ELSA-2016-0532: krb5 security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/12/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/07/2016
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.

Solution(s)

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

References

  • ELSA-2016-0532
  • DSA-3466
  • CVE-2015-8630

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