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Fedora alert FEDORA-2006-1341 (mod_auth_kerb)

From:  "Joe Orton" <jorton@redhat.com>
To:  fedora-package-announce@redhat.com
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora Core 5 Update: mod_auth_kerb-5.3-2.fc5
Date:  Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:26:01 -0500

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2006-1341 2006-11-29 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Product : Fedora Core 5 Name : mod_auth_kerb Version : 5.3 Release : 2.fc5 Summary : Kerberos authentication module for HTTP Description : mod_auth_kerb is module for the Apache HTTP Server designed to provide Kerberos authentication over HTTP. The module supports the Negotiate authentication method, which performs full Kerberos authentication based on ticket exchanges. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update includes the latest upstream release of mod_auth_kerb, version 5.3, which includes the fix for a security issue. An off by one flaw was found in the way mod_auth_kerb handles certain Kerberos authentication messages. A remote client could send a specially crafted authentication request which could crash an httpd child process (CVE-2006-5989). --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Tue Nov 28 2006 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> 5.3-2.fc5 - fix r->user caching (Enrico Scholz, #214207) * Thu Nov 23 2006 Joe Orton <jorton@redhat.com> 5.3-1.fc5 - update to 5.3 (CVE-2006-5989, #215443) --------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be downloaded from: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/u... 69de23600ac2b927af4b24498c056be48f6ce707 SRPMS/mod_auth_kerb-5.3-2.fc5.src.rpm 69de23600ac2b927af4b24498c056be48f6ce707 noarch/mod_auth_kerb-5.3-2.fc5.src.rpm 1a7fff3cfb20d2447ba27cab093944d37037b6d6 ppc/debug/mod_auth_kerb-debuginfo-5.3-2.fc5.ppc.rpm 13dd78d44664c5c29672a55ca6e35de534fcb705 ppc/mod_auth_kerb-5.3-2.fc5.ppc.rpm e77cbc87eab362aa9d71cdac44a727fa9fe5f917 x86_64/mod_auth_kerb-5.3-2.fc5.x86_64.rpm 6e1ccab28dc654035684d3a3ff048bd78f4f7bc3 x86_64/debug/mod_auth_kerb-debuginfo-5.3-2.fc5.x86_64.rpm d7319c95d15a63cd7ae9dea639a1de657ba854c0 i386/debug/mod_auth_kerb-debuginfo-5.3-2.fc5.i386.rpm c3c8a4d6adf29a6b94c739a502d7bb7c4e66d200 i386/mod_auth_kerb-5.3-2.fc5.i386.rpm This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/. --------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-ann...


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