[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: krb5-1.9-6.fc15
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-3547
2011-03-18 02:38:03
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Name : krb5
Product : Fedora 15
Version : 1.9
Release : 6.fc15
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:
This update incorporates upstream fixes for a double-free in the KDC which could occur if the KDC needed to send back typed-data along with an error (MITKRB5-SA-2011-003, CVE-2011-0284).
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #674325 - CVE-2011-0284 krb5 (krb5kdc): Double-free flaw by handling error messages upon receiving certain AS_REQ's (MITKRB5-SA-2011-003)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=674325
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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/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
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