[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: krb5-1.11.5-10.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-8189
2014-07-09 01:28:02
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.11.5
Release     : 10.fc20
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.

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Update Information:

This update incorporates backported upstream fixes for potential crashes caused by attempts to process malformed GSSAPI messages (CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342).  It also incorporates fexes for a possible double-free (CVE-2014-4343) and a possible NULL pointer dereference (CVE-2014-4344) in GSSAPI clients.
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Jul 21 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-10
- gssapi: pull in upstream fix for a possible NULL dereference
  in spnego (CVE-2014-4344)
* Wed Jul 16 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-9
- gssapi: pull in proposed fix for a double free in initiators (David
  Woodhouse, CVE-2014-4343, #1117963)
* Mon Jul  7 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-8
- pull in fix for denial of service by injection of malformed GSSAPI tokens
  (CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2014-4342, #1116181)
* Tue Jun 24 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-7
- pull in changes from upstream which add processing of the contents of
  /etc/gss/mech.d/*.conf when loading GSS modules (#1102839)
- pull in fix for building against tcl 8.6 (#1107061)
* Tue May 27 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-6
- back out currently-proposed changes to teach ksu about credential cache
  collections and the default_ccache_name setting (#1089035) for now
* Tue Mar  4 2014 Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-5
- Backport fix for change password requests when using FAST (RT#7868)
* Mon Feb 17 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-4
- spnego: pull in patch from master to restore preserving the OID of the
  mechanism the initiator requested when we have multiple OIDs for the same
  mechanism, so that we reply using the same mechanism OID and the initiator
  doesn't get confused (#1066000, RT#7858)
* Mon Feb 10 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-3
- pull in patch from master to move the default directory which the KDC uses
  when computing the socket path for a local OTP daemon from the database
  directory (/var/kerberos/krb5kdc) to the newly-added run directory
  (/run/krb5kdc), in line with what we're expecting in 1.13 (RT#7859, more
  of #1040056 as #1063905)
- add a tmpfiles.d configuration file to have /run/krb5kdc created at
  boot-time
- own /var/run/krb5kdc
* Fri Jan 31 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-2
- rebuild because I tagged the previous package wrong
* Fri Jan 31 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.5-1
- update to 1.11.5
  - remove patch for RT#7650, obsoleted in 1.11.4
  - remove patch for RT#7706, obsoleted in 1.11.4
  - remove patch for RT#7756 (CVE-2013-1418), obsoleted in 1.11.4
  - remove patch for RT#7668 (CVE-2013-1417), obsoleted in 1.11.4
  - remove patch for RT#7508, obsoleted in 1.11.4
  - remove patch for RT#7794, obsoleted in 1.11.4 as RT#7825
  - remove patch for RT#7797, obsoleted in 1.11.4 as RT#7827
  - remove patch for RT#7803, obsoleted in 1.11.4 as RT#7828
  - remove patch for RT#7805, obsoleted in 1.11.4 as RT#7829
  - remove patch for RT#7807, obsoleted in 1.11.4 as RT#7826
  - remove patch for RT#7045, obsoleted in 1.11.4 as RT#7823
* Fri Jan 31 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.3-40
- add currently-proposed changes to teach ksu about credential cache
  collections and the default_ccache_name setting (#1015559,#1026099)
* Tue Jan 21 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.3-39
- pull in upstream patch to fix the GSSAPI library's checks for expired
  client creds in gss_init_sec_context() so that they work with keyring
  caches (RT#7820, #1030607)
* Tue Jan 21 2014 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com>
- pull in and backport multiple changes to allow replay caches to be added to
  a GSS credential store as "rcache"-type credentials (RT#7818/#7819/#7836,
* Thu Dec 19 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.3-38
- pull in fix from master to make reporting of errors encountered by the SPNEGO
  mechanism work better (RT#7045, part of #1043962)
* Thu Dec 19 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com>
- update a test wrapper to properly handle things that the new libkrad does,
  and add python-pyrad as a build requirement so that we can run its tests
* Wed Dec 18 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.3-37
- backport fixes to krb5_copy_context (RT#7807, #1044735/#1044739)
* Wed Dec 18 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.3-36
- backport fix to avoid double-freeing in the client when we're configured
  to use a clpreauth module that isn't actually a clpreauth module (#1035203)
* Wed Dec 18 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.3-35
- pull in fix from master to return a NULL pointer rather than allocating
  zero bytes of memory if we read a zero-length input token (RT#7794, part of
  - pull in fix from master to ignore an empty token from an acceptor if
  we've already finished authenticating (RT#7797, part of #1043962)
- pull in fix from master to avoid a memory leak when a mechanism's
  init_sec_context function fails (RT#7803, part of #1043962)
- pull in fix from master to avoid a memory leak in a couple of error
  cases which could occur while obtaining acceptor credentials (RT#7805, part
  of #1043962)
* Tue Dec 17 2013 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.11.3-34
- backport additional changes to libkrad to make it function more like
  the version in upstream 1.12, and a few things in the OTP plugin as well
  (most visibly, that the secret that's shared with the RADIUS server is read
  from a file rather than used directly) (#1040056)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1116180 - CVE-2014-4341 krb5: denial of service flaws when handling padding length longer than the plaintext
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1116180
  [ 2 ] Bug #1121876 - CVE-2014-4343 krb5: double-free flaw in SPNEGO initiators
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121876
  [ 3 ] Bug #1121877 - CVE-2014-4344 krb5: NULL pointer dereference flaw in SPNEGO acceptor for continuation tokens
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121877
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update krb5' at the command line.
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