[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: krb5-1.7.1-8.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-7102
2010-04-21 21:41:27
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 1.7.1
Release     : 8.fc13
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 cleartext passwords.

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Update Information:

Joel Johnson reported a possible double-free in the Kerberos KDC
(MITKRB5-SA-2010-004, CVE-2010-1320).  This update adds the upstream fix for
this bug.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #581922 - CVE-2010-1320 krb5: double-free vulnerability in 1.7+
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=581922
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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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