RHSA-2016:0532Medium

Red Hat Security Advisory: krb5 security update

Published
March 31, 2016
Last Modified
November 5, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (3)

CVE-2015-8629 →CVE-2015-8630 →CVE-2015-8631 →

📋 Description

CVE-2015-8629 — krb5: xdr_nullstring() doesn't check for terminating null character CVE-2015-8630 — krb5: krb5 doesn't check for null policy when KADM5_POLICY is set in the mask CVE-2015-8631 — krb5: Memory leak caused by supplying a null principal name in request

🎯 Affected products81

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • krb5-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • krb5-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • krb5-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • krb5-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.src as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.ppc as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.ppc64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.ppc64le as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.s390 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.s390x as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
  • krb5-debuginfo-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.x86_64 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7)
  • krb5-devel-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7)
  • krb5-devel-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7)
  • krb5-devel-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2.i686 as a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7)
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✅ Remediation

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 After installing the updated packages, running Kerberos services (krb5kdc, kadmin, and kprop) will be restarted automatically.

🔗 References (6)