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GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-420
GCVE-VVD-MAGEIA-2017-420
Advisory Published
An authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5's certauth
interface handled the validation of client certificates. A remote
attacker able to communicate with the KDC could potentially use this
flaw to impersonate arbitrary principals under rare and erroneous
circumstances (CVE-2017-7562).
Note that this issue only affects Mageia 6.
RFC 2744 permits a GSS-API implementation to delete an existing security
context on a second or subsequent call to gss_init_sec_context() or
gss_accept_sec_context() if the call results in an error. This API
behavior has been found to be dangerous, leading to the possibility of
memory errors in some callers. For safety, GSS-API implementations
should instead preserve existing security contexts on error until the
caller deletes them (CVE-2017-11462).
A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in get_matching_data()
function when both the CA cert and the user cert have a long subject
affecting krb5 that includes certauth plugin. Attack requires a
validated certificate with a long subject and issuer, and a
"pkinit_cert_match" string attribute on some principal in the database.
A remote code execution exploit might also require that the attacker
gets to choose the contents of the issuer in the validated cert
(CVE-2017-15088).
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mageia | krb5 | 0 (affected), 1.15.1-2.2.mga6 (unaffected) | — |
| Mageia | krb5 | 0 (affected), 1.12.5-1.3.mga5 (unaffected) | — |
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