-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-10c74147f9 2017-09-09 20:54:31.151626 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : krb5 Product : Fedora 26 Version : 1.15.1 Release : 28.fc26 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:
- Prevent applications from accidentally implementing CVE-2017-11462 (double free if sec_context is copied). - fc26+: Add ccselect hostrealm module for ccache selection based on service hostname. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1488873 - CVE-2017-11462 krb5: Automatic sec context deletion could lead to double-free https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1488873 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade krb5' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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