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Medium ALAS2023-2023-321 2 CVEs

Moderate: krb5 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 31, 2023 · Updated Sep 7, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-39975: kdc/do_tgs_req.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21 before 1.21.2 has a double free that is reachable if an authenticated user can trigger an authorization-data handling failure. Incorrect data is copied from one ticket to another. 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 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-debuginfo 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-debugsource 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-devel 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-libs 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-libs-debuginfo 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-pkinit 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-pkinit-debuginfo 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-server 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-server-debuginfo 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-server-ldap 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-server-ldap-debuginfo 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-workstation 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-workstation-debuginfo 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 libkadm5 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2023 libkadm5-debuginfo 0:1.21-3.amzn2023.0.3

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 8.8

    kdc/do_tgs_req.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21 before 1.21.2 has a double free that is reachable if an authenticate…

  • Unscored —

    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 poi…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-36054.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-39975.html