[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: krb5-1.7.1-10.fc13

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-8749
2010-05-19 18:34:19
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 1.7.1
Release     : 10.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:

Shawn Emery discovered a remotely-triggerable null pointer dereference in the
Kerberos GSS-API library which could be used to cause GSS-API-authenticated
services to crash.  This update incorporates fixes to instead correctly detect
the error and return an error code.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue May 18 2010 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.7.1-10
- add patch to correct GSSAPI library null pointer dereference which could be
  triggered by malformed client requests (CVE-2010-1321, #582466)
* Tue May  4 2010 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.7.1-9
- fix output of kprop's init script's "status" and "reload" commands (#588222)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #582466 - CVE-2010-1321 krb5: null pointer dereference in GSS-API library leads to DoS (MITKRB5-SA-2010-005)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=582466
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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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