[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/.

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