ALAS-2013-208


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2013-208
Advisory Release Date: 2013-07-12 15:31 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2014-09-15 23:15 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

It was found that kadmind's kpasswd service did not perform any validation on incoming network packets, causing it to reply to all requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send spoofed packets to a kpasswd service that appear to come from kadmind on a different server, causing the services to keep replying packets to each other, consuming network bandwidth and CPU. (CVE-2002-2443)


Affected Packages:

krb5


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

New Packages:
i686:
    krb5-workstation-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.i686
    krb5-devel-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.i686
    krb5-server-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.i686
    krb5-pkinit-openssl-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.i686
    krb5-libs-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.i686
    krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.i686
    krb5-server-ldap-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.i686

src:
    krb5-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    krb5-server-ldap-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-workstation-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-server-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-libs-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-pkinit-openssl-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-debuginfo-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-devel-1.10.3-10.26.amzn1.x86_64