[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: krb5-1.10.3-15.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-5280
2013-04-10 00:50:42
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 1.10.3
Release     : 15.fc18
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:

These updates incorporate the upstream patch for a NULL pointer dereference in the KDC which could occur while processing certain TGS requests (CVE-2013-1416).
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Apr  9 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-15
- incorporate upstream patch to fix a NULL pointer dereference while processing
  certain TGS requests (CVE-2013-1416, #949984/#949987)
* Tue Mar  5 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-14
- add patch to avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer in the KDC when handling a
  draft9 PKINIT request (#917841, CVE-2012-1016)
* Thu Feb 28 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-13
- fix a memory leak when acquiring credentials using a keytab (RT#7586, #911110)
* Mon Feb 25 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-12
- incorporate upstream patch to fix a NULL pointer dereference when the client
  supplies an otherwise-normal-looking PKINIT request (CVE-2013-1415, #914756)
* Mon Jan  7 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-11
- make -server conflict with older versions of SELinux policy that didn't
  allow us to use eventfds, which libverto's backend may depend on in order
  to properly shut down a multi-worker KDC (#871524)
* Thu Dec 13 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-10
- libkdb_ldap: add a workaround to keep the KDC from attempting to write to an
  entry's krbLastAdminUnlock attribute on every AS request (#860759, RT#7502)
* Tue Dec 11 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-9
- when building with our bundled copy of libverto, package it in with -libs
  rather than with -server (#886049)
* Mon Dec 10 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-8
- untag a couple of other patches which don't strictly need to apply during
  %{?_rawbuild} builds (more of #874177)
* Wed Oct 17 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-7
- tag a couple of other patches which we still need to be applied during
  %{?_rawbuild} builds (zmraz, #874177)
* Tue Sep 25 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10.3-6
- actually pull up the patch for RT#7063, and not some other ticket (#773496)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #949984 - CVE-2013-1416 krb5: NULL pointer dereference (DoS, KDC crash) by processing certain TGS requests
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=949984
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update krb5' at the command line.
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