USN-477-1: krb5 vulnerabilities

27 June 2007

krb5 vulnerabilities

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Wei Wang discovered that the krb5 RPC library did not correctly handle
certain error conditions. A remote attacker could cause kadmind to free
an uninitialized pointer, leading to a denial of service or possibly
execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2007-2442)

Wei Wang discovered that the krb5 RPC library did not correctly check
the size of certain communications. A remote attacker could send a
specially crafted request to kadmind and execute arbitrary code with
root privileges. (CVE-2007-2443)

It was discovered that the kadmind service could be made to overflow its
stack. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request and
execute arbitrary code with root privileges. (CVE-2007-2798)

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.04
  • libkadm55 - 1.4.4-5ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu 6.10
  • libkadm55 - 1.4.3-9ubuntu1.3
Ubuntu 6.06
  • libkadm55 - 1.4.3-5ubuntu0.4

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

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