DSA-2701-1 krb5 -- denial of service

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2701-1 krb5 -- denial of service

Date Reported:

29 May 2013

Affected Packages:

krb5

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 708267.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-2443.

More information:

It was discovered that the kpasswd service running on UDP port 464 could respond to response packets, creating a packet loop and a denial of service condition.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze7.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.1+dfsg-5+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), this problem will be fixed soon.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.10.1+dfsg-6.

We recommend that you upgrade your krb5 packages.