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Medium ALAS2-2023-2225 1 CVE

Moderate: krb5 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 31, 2023 · Updated Sep 7, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-36054: lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.20.2 and 1.21.x before 1.21.1 frees an uninitialized pointer. A remote authenticated user can trigger a kadmind crash. This occurs because _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec does not validate the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count.

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 krb5-debuginfo 0:1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.6
Amazon Linux · 2 krb5-devel 0:1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.6
Amazon Linux · 2 krb5-libs 0:1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.6
Amazon Linux · 2 krb5-pkinit 0:1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.6
Amazon Linux · 2 krb5-server 0:1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.6
Amazon Linux · 2 krb5-server-ldap 0:1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.6
Amazon Linux · 2 krb5-workstation 0:1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.6
Amazon Linux · 2 libkadm5 0:1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.6

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-36054.html