[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: krb5-1.11.3-32.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-21456
2013-11-16 05:29:00
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.11.3
Release     : 32.fc20
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.

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Update Information:

This update incorporates a bug fix to properly reject more invalid names for credential caches, and the fix for CVE-2013-1417, which could cause a KDC to attempt to dereference a NULL pointer.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1030743 - CVE-2013-1417 krb5: KDC null deref due to referrals
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1030743
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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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