ALAS-2023-1818

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-36054  

lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.20.2 and 1.21.x before 1.21.1 frees an uninitialized pointer. A remote authenticated user can trigger a kadmind crash. This occurs because _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec does not validate the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count. (CVE-2023-36054)

ALAS-2023-1818


Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1818
Advisory Release Date: 2023-08-30 17:56 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-09-09 00:34 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.20.2 and 1.21.x before 1.21.1 frees an uninitialized pointer. A remote authenticated user can trigger a kadmind crash. This occurs because _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec does not validate the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count. (CVE-2023-36054)


Affected Packages:

krb5


Issue Correction:
Run yum update krb5 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    krb5-workstation-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.i686
    krb5-debuginfo-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.i686
    krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.i686
    libkadm5-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.i686
    krb5-server-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.i686
    krb5-devel-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.i686
    krb5-libs-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.i686
    krb5-pkinit-openssl-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.i686

src:
    krb5-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    krb5-server-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-debuginfo-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-pkinit-openssl-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-libs-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-devel-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-workstation-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.x86_64
    libkadm5-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.x86_64
    krb5-server-ldap-1.15.1-55.52.amzn1.x86_64