USN-1233-1: Kerberos Vulnerabilities

Publication date

18 October 2011

Overview

Several denial of service issues were fixed in the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC).


Packages

  • krb5 - MIT Kerberos Network Authentication Protocol

Details

Nalin Dahyabhai, Andrej Ota and Kyle Moffett discovered a NULL
pointer dereference in the KDC LDAP backend. An unauthenticated
remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This
issue affected Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2011-1527)

Mark Deneen discovered that an assert() could be triggered in the
krb5_ldap_lockout_audit() function in the KDC LDAP backend and
the krb5_db2_lockout_audit() function in the KDC DB2 backend. An
unauthenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2011-1528)

It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference could occur in the
lookup_lockout_policy() function in the KDC LDAP and DB2 backends.
An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2011-1529)

Nalin Dahyabhai, Andrej Ota and Kyle Moffett discovered a NULL
pointer dereference in the KDC LDAP backend. An unauthenticated
remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This
issue affected Ubuntu 11.10. (CVE-2011-1527)

Mark Deneen discovered that an assert() could be triggered in the
krb5_ldap_lockout_audit() function in the KDC LDAP backend and
the krb5_db2_lockout_audit() function in the KDC DB2 backend. An
unauthenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2011-1528)

It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference could occur in the
lookup_lockout_policy() function in the KDC LDAP and DB2 backends.
An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of
service. (CVE-2011-1529)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

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