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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70698
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2379-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'krb5' package(s) announced via the DSA-2379-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'krb5' package(s) announced via the DSA-2379-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
It was discovered that the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Kerberos 5 crashes when processing certain crafted requests:

CVE-2011-1528

When the LDAP backend is used, remote users can trigger a KDC daemon crash and denial of service.

CVE-2011-1529

When the LDAP or Berkeley DB backend is used, remote users can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the KDC daemon and a denial of service.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by these problems.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5.

For the testing distribution (wheezy) and the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 1.10+dfsg~
alpha1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your krb5 packages.

Affected Software/OS:
'krb5' package(s) on Debian 6.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
7.8

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1528
CERT/CC vulnerability note: VU#659251
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/659251
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:159
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:160
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1379.html
SuSE Security Announcement: openSUSE-SU-2011:1169 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-10/msg00009.html
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-1529
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