Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-8784 (krb5)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: krb5-1.10-7.fc17 
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Wed, 13 Jun 2012 21:34:09 +0000
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8784
2012-06-02 23:24:45
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.10
Release     : 7.fc17
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 sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form.

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Update Information:

This update incorporates the upstream fix to correct a possible NULL pointer dereference in kadmind
(CVE-2012-1013).
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun  1 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.10-7
- pull up the patch to correct a possible NULL pointer dereference in
  kadmind (CVE-2012-1013, #827598)
* Mon May  7 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>
- skip the setfscreatecon() if fopen() is passed "rb" as the open mode (part
  of #819115)
* Tue Mar 20 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 1.10-6
- change back dns_lookup_kdc to the default setting (Stef Walter, #805318)
- comment out example.com examples in default krb5.conf (Stef Walter, #805320)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #827517 - CVE-2012-1013 krb5: kadmind denial of service
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827517
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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/.

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