[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: krb5-1.6.3-23.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-0515
2010-01-14 00:54:45
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.6.3
Release     : 23.fc11
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 fixes from upstream which correct integer underflow
problems in the AES and RC4 decryption routines (CVE-2009-4212).
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Jan 12 2010 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> - 1.6.3-23
- add upstream patch for integer underflow during AES and RC4 decryption
  (CVE-2009-4212), via Tom Yu (#545015)
* Tue Jun 30 2009 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com>
- pam_rhosts_auth.so's been gone, use pam_rhosts.so instead
* Mon Jun  8 2009 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.6.3-22
- put %{krb5prefix}/sbin in everyone's path, too (#504525)
* Tue May 26 2009 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.6.3-21
- don't depend on the execute bit being set on scripts that are sources
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #545015 - CVE-2009-4212 krb: KDC integer overflows in AES and RC4 decryption routines (MITKRB5-SA-2009-004)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545015
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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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