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Medium RLSA-2021:1593 1 CVE

Moderate: krb5 security update

Published May 18, 2021 · Updated Feb 4, 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: unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-28196)

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 Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Rocky Linux · 8 krb5 0:1.18.2-8.el8

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1835713
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868039
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1869055
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1872689
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901041