ALAS2-2022-1845


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2022-1845
Advisory Release Date: 2022-09-09 10:48 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2022-10-10 21:55 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

A flaw was found in krb5. MIT Kerberos 5 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit. (CVE-2020-28196)


Affected Packages:

krb5


Note:

This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.


Issue Correction:
Run yum update krb5 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    krb5-devel-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.aarch64
    krb5-libs-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.aarch64
    krb5-server-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.aarch64
    krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.aarch64
    krb5-workstation-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.aarch64
    krb5-pkinit-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.aarch64
    libkadm5-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.aarch64
    krb5-debuginfo-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.aarch64

i686:
    krb5-devel-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.i686
    krb5-libs-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.i686
    krb5-server-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.i686
    krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.i686
    krb5-workstation-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.i686
    krb5-pkinit-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.i686
    libkadm5-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.i686
    krb5-debuginfo-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.i686

src:
    krb5-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.src

x86_64:
    krb5-devel-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.x86_64
    krb5-libs-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.x86_64
    krb5-server-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.x86_64
    krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.x86_64
    krb5-workstation-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.x86_64
    krb5-pkinit-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.x86_64
    libkadm5-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.x86_64
    krb5-debuginfo-1.15.1-37.amzn2.2.3.x86_64