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Medium ALSA-2024:9331 3 CVEs

Moderate: krb5 security update

Published Nov 12, 2024 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Kerberos is a network authentication system, which can improve the security of your network by eliminating the insecure practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form. It allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other with the help of a trusted third party, the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC).

Security Fix(es):

* krb5: Memory leak at /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmap_rmt.c (CVE-2024-26458)
* krb5: Memory leak at /krb5/src/lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c (CVE-2024-26461)
* krb5: Memory leak at /krb5/src/kdc/ndr.c (CVE-2024-26462)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 krb5-devel 1.21.1-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 krb5-libs 1.21.1-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 krb5-pkinit 1.21.1-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 krb5-server 1.21.1-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 krb5-server-ldap 1.21.1-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 krb5-workstation 1.21.1-3.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 libkadm5 1.21.1-3.el9

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26458
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26461
  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-26462
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266731
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266740
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2266742
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2024-9331.html