[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: krb5-1.8.2-9.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-3462
2011-03-16 19:34:33
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 1.8.2
Release     : 9.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 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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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar 15 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.8.2-9
- add revised upstream patch to fix double-free in KDC while returning
  typed-data with errors (CVE-2011-0284, #674325)
* Tue Feb  8 2011 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.8.2-8
- add upstream patches to fix standalone kpropd exiting if the per-client
  child process exits with an error (MITKRB5-SA-2011-001), and a hang or
  crash in the KDC when using the LDAP kdb backend (MITKRB5-SA-2011-002)
  (CVE-2010-4022, #664009, CVE-2011-0281, #668719, CVE-2011-0282, #668726)
* Tue Nov 30 2010 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.8.2-7
- pull up 1.8.2/1.8.3 libk5crypto changes to correct the patch context
- add upstream patch to fix various issues from MITKRB5-SA-2010-007
  (CVE-2010-1323, #648734, CVE-2010-1324, #648674, CVE-2010-4020, #648735)
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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.
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