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Fedora alert FEDORA-2011-16296 (krb5)

From:  updates@fedoraproject.org
To:  package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject:  [SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: krb5-1.9.2-4.fc16
Date:  Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:04:48 +0000
Message-ID:  <20111212220449.AA17B21688@bastion01.phx2.fedoraproject.org>
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-16296 2011-11-23 00:23:28 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name : krb5 Product : Fedora 16 Version : 1.9.2 Release : 4.fc16 URL : http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/ Summary : The Kerberos network authentication system Description : Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system, which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure practice of cleartext passwords. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update rebases Fedora 15 and 16 from version 1.9.1 to version 1.9.2, incorporating a recent security update, and some of the fixes we were previously backporting, among others. It also incorporates fixes for null pointer dereferences which the KDC could make while processing TGS requests (CVE-2011-1530). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Dec 6 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.9.2-4 - apply upstream patch to fix a null pointer dereference when processing TGS requests (CVE-2011-1530, #753748) * Wed Nov 30 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.9.2-3 - correct a bug in the fix for #754001 so that the file creation context is consistently reset * Tue Nov 22 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.9.2-2 - pull patch from trunk so that when computing an HMAC, we don't assume that the HMAC output size is the same as the input key length (RT#6994, #756139) * Tue Nov 15 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.9.2-1 - update to 1.9.2, incorporating the recent security update and some of the things we were previously backporting, among other fixes * Tue Nov 15 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.9.1-19 - selinux: reset the creation context properly after expunging replay caches if they were previously set to the default value (#754001) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #754001 - ssh_selinux_change_context: setcon failed with Invalid argument (openssh, krb5) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754001 [ 2 ] Bug #756139 - krb5_pac_verify() fail with AES keys https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=756139 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update krb5' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-...


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