[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: krb5-1.10-7.fc17
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Wed Jun 13 21:34:09 UTC 2012
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8784
2012-06-02 23:24:45
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Name : krb5
Product : Fedora 17
Version : 1.10
Release : 7.fc17
URL : http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
Summary : The Kerberos network authentication system
Description :
Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system,
which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure
practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form.
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Update Information:
This update incorporates the upstream fix to correct a possible NULL pointer dereference in kadmind (CVE-2012-1013).
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ChangeLog:
* Fri Jun 1 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10-7
- pull up the patch to correct a possible NULL pointer dereference in
kadmind (CVE-2012-1013, #827598)
* Mon May 7 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com>
- skip the setfscreatecon() if fopen() is passed "rb" as the open mode (part
of #819115)
* Tue Mar 20 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10-6
- change back dns_lookup_kdc to the default setting (Stef Walter, #805318)
- comment out example.com examples in default krb5.conf (Stef Walter, #805320)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #827517 - CVE-2012-1013 krb5: kadmind denial of service
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827517
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update krb5' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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