Red Hat Security Advisory: Updated Kerberos 5 packages are now available

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:00 -0400
From: bugzilla@redhat.com
To: redhat-watch-list@redhat.com, linux-security@redhat.com
Subject: [RHSA-2000:025-12] Updated Kerberos 5 packages are now
available for Red Hat Linux.

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                   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Updated Kerberos 5 packages are now available for Red Hat Linux.
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2000:025-12
Issue date:        2000-05-16
Updated on:        2000-06-15
Product:           Red Hat Linux
Keywords:          N/A
Cross references:  N/A

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1. Topic:

Security vulnerabilities have been found in the Kerberos 5
implementation shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.2.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 6.2 – i386 alpha sparc

3. Problem description:

A number of possible buffer overruns were found in libraries
included in the affected packages. A denial-of-service
vulnerability was also found in the ksu program.

* A remote user may gain unauthorized root access to a machine
running services authenticated with Kerberos 4.

* A remote user may gain unauthorized root access to a machine
running krshd, regardless of whether the program is configured to
accept Kerberos 4 authentication.

* A local user may gain unauthorized root access by exploiting
v4rcp or ksu.

* A remote user can cause a KDC to become unresponsive or crash
by sending it an improperly formatted request.

* A remote user may execute certain FTP commands without
authorization on systems using the FTP server included in the
krb5-workstation package.

* An attacker with access to a local account may gain
unauthorized root access on systems using the FTP server included
in the krb5-workstation package.

4. Solution:

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
for more info):

10653 – ‘stat’ unresolved on “libkrb5.so.2.2” load
11496 – security-updated krb5 packages fail dependencies

6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.2:

intel:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/i386/krb5-configs-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/i386/krb5-devel-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/i386/krb5-libs-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/i386/krb5-server-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/i386/krb5-workstation-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm

alpha:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/alpha/krb5-configs-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/alpha/krb5-devel-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/alpha/krb5-libs-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/alpha/krb5-server-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/alpha/krb5-workstation-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm

sparc:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/sparc/krb5-configs-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/sparc/krb5-devel-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/sparc/krb5-libs-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/sparc/krb5-server-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/sparc/krb5-workstation-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm

sources:

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/updates/6.2/SRPMS/krb5-1.1.1-21.src.rpm

7. Verification:

MD5 sum                           Package Name

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220dd8648e6560215475f29f12cf7fbf 6.2/SRPMS/krb5-1.1.1-21.src.rpm
506aa4887dbb63ee0fdf1b0617db5d92 6.2/alpha/krb5-configs-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm
19d3648a64b259a3a83ef70ecf3c1d3e 6.2/alpha/krb5-devel-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm
ea30e1a247aa7d4c516ead13c825c8cb 6.2/alpha/krb5-libs-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm
55805f5199f7c2c24c03f4609a2cbd81 6.2/alpha/krb5-server-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm
a98473df43eedf564efe9a05b30c2baf 6.2/alpha/krb5-workstation-1.1.1-21.alpha.rpm
43d0af74bb628d446dc8781e9d0ae08b 6.2/i386/krb5-configs-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm
d13ac3cc0e680b0e452aeb34749ea7b4 6.2/i386/krb5-devel-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm
76882356337e55cd3bd5e0d5cfa454de 6.2/i386/krb5-libs-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm
93efde6cc79b16245f5e27e793a8a4ad 6.2/i386/krb5-server-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm
aa00aa8b26a50b75317f51e447a17420 6.2/i386/krb5-workstation-1.1.1-21.i386.rpm
ff7f959f22e80e9aeabb3a1c6602e225 6.2/sparc/krb5-configs-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm
1cce9df9c5591fe43c1340334d01d6be 6.2/sparc/krb5-devel-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm
cc67fdfad917452f383e45a9945e5ae0 6.2/sparc/krb5-libs-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm
0215d914b0d9e2f78830ef7df9b14fea 6.2/sparc/krb5-server-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm
3f564e722e61c1e4e8bd1a3faa108b3d 6.2/sparc/krb5-workstation-1.1.1-21.sparc.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our
key is available at:
http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

You can verify each package with the following command:
rpm –checksig

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been
corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the
following command:
rpm –checksig –nogpg

8. References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1220

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1338

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/index.html

Thanks to Chris Evans, Mike Friedman, Jim Paris, Matt Power,
Andrew Newman, Christopher R. Thompson, and Marcus Watts for
reporting these problems to us and the Kerberos 5 team.