-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-8784 2012-06-02 23:24:45 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: This update incorporates the upstream fix to correct a possible NULL pointer dereference in kadmind (CVE-2012-1013). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Jun 1 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> - skip the setfscreatecon() if fopen() is passed "rb" as the open mode (part of #819115) * Tue Mar 20 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <[email protected]> 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) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #827517 - CVE-2012-1013 krb5: kadmind denial of service https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=827517 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
