USN-5828-1: Kerberos vulnerabilities

25 January 2023

Several security issues were fixed in Kerberos.

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Releases

Packages

  • krb5 - MIT Kerberos Network Authentication Protocol

Details

It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled certain S4U2Self
requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu
18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-20217)

Greg Hudson discovered that Kerberos PAC implementation incorrectly
handled certain parsing operations. A remote attacker could use this
issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2022-42898)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

After a standard system update you need to restart any application
using Kerberos libraries to make all the necessary changes.

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