[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: krb5-1.13.1-2.fc22

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-5949
2015-04-10 17:05:36
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 22
Version     : 1.13.1
Release     : 2.fc22
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:

Security fix for CVE-2014-5353
(this was fixed in an older build but the announcement was lost)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1174543 - CVE-2014-5353 krb5: NULL pointer dereference when using a ticket policy name as a password policy name
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1174543
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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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