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Medium ALAS2023-2026-1939 1 CVE

Moderate: krb5 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jul 20, 2026 · Updated Jul 20, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-11850: An integer underflow vulnerability was found in MIT krb5 in the berval2tl_data() function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c. The function performs an unsigned subtraction (bv_len - 2) without a prior bounds check. When bv_len is 0 or 1, the subtraction wraps to a large value which is then truncated to uint16_t, yielding 0xFFFE (65534) or 0xFFFF (65535). The subsequent malloc succeeds and memcpy reads up to 65534 bytes from a 0-1 byte buffer, resulting in a heap out-of-bounds read. The attack vector involves a malicious or compromised LDAP KDB backend returning a krbExtraData attribute with bv_len < 2, triggering the underflow when the KDC or kadmind reads principal data.

Fixed packages 15

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-debuginfo 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-debugsource 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-devel 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-libs 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-libs-debuginfo 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-pkinit 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-pkinit-debuginfo 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-server 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-server-debuginfo 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-server-ldap 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-server-ldap-debuginfo 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-workstation 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 krb5-workstation-debuginfo 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 libkadm5 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 libkadm5-debuginfo 0:1.21.3-8.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-11850.html