ALAS-2024-2595


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2024-2595
Advisory Release Date: 2024-07-18 02:00 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2024-07-22 13:50 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

krb5: GSS message token handling (CVE-2024-37370)

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can cause invalid memory reads during GSS message token handling by sending message tokens with invalid length fields. (CVE-2024-37371)


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-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.aarch64
    krb5-libs-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.aarch64
    krb5-server-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.aarch64
    krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.aarch64
    krb5-workstation-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.aarch64
    krb5-pkinit-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.aarch64
    libkadm5-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.aarch64
    krb5-debuginfo-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.aarch64

i686:
    krb5-devel-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.i686
    krb5-libs-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.i686
    krb5-server-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.i686
    krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.i686
    krb5-workstation-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.i686
    krb5-pkinit-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.i686
    libkadm5-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.i686
    krb5-debuginfo-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.i686

src:
    krb5-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.src

x86_64:
    krb5-devel-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.x86_64
    krb5-libs-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.x86_64
    krb5-server-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.x86_64
    krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.x86_64
    krb5-workstation-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.x86_64
    krb5-pkinit-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.x86_64
    libkadm5-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.x86_64
    krb5-debuginfo-1.15.1-55.amzn2.2.8.x86_64