[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: krb5-1.8.2-6.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-15803
2010-10-05 21:46:26
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 1.8.2
Release     : 6.fc14
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 the upstream patch to fix an uninitialized pointer crash in the KDC's authorization data handling routines (CVE-2010-1322).  It also pulls up a few backports and compilation flag changes from F15.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #636335 - CVE-2010-1322 krb5: KDC uninitialized pointer crash in authorization data handling (MITKRB5-SA-2010-006)
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=636335
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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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