MGASA-2016-0123

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    MGASA-2016-0123

    Published: 25 Mar 2016Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-3119

    Summary: Updated krb5 packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: It was reported that in all versions of MIT krb5, an authenticated attacker with permission to modify a principal entry can cause kadmind to dereference a null pointer by supplying an empty DB argument to the modify_principal command, if kadmind is configured to use the LDAP KDB module (CVE-2016-3119). The krb5 package has been updated to version 1.12.5 and patched to fix this issue and other bugs.

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0123.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18058, http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.12/krb5-1.12.5.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179220.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: krb5

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/krb5?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.12.5-1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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