MGASA-2016-0052

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MGASA-2016-0052

Summary: Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerability

Details: In all versions of MIT krb5, an authenticated attacker can cause kadmind to read beyond the end of allocated memory by sending a string without a terminating zero byte. Information leakage may be possible for an attacker with permission to modify the database (CVE-2015-8629). In MIT krb5 1.12 and later, an authenticated attacker with permission to modify a principal entry can cause kadmind to dereference a null pointer by supplying a null policy value but including KADM5_POLICY in the mask (CVE-2015-8630). In all versions of MIT krb5, an authenticated attacker can cause kadmind to leak memory by supplying a null principal name in a request which uses one. Repeating these requests will eventually cause kadmind to exhaust all available memory (CVE-2015-8631).

References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0052.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17642, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176451.html