RHSA-2002:173

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2002-09-05 07:34 - Updated: 2025-11-21 17:25
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: krb5 security update
Severity
Important
Notes
Topic: Updated Kerberos 5 packages are now available for Red Hat LInux Advanced Server. These updates fix a buffer overflow in the XDR decoder.
Details: Sun RPC is a remote procedure call framework which allows clients to invoke procedures in a server process over a network. XDR is a mechanism for encoding data structures for use with RPC. The Kerberos 5 network authentication system contains an RPC library which includes an XDR decoder derived from Sun's RPC implementation. The Sun implementation was recently demonstrated to be vulnerable to a heap overflow. It is believed that the attacker needs to be able to authenticate to the kadmin daemon for this attack to be successful. No exploits are known to currently exist. All users should upgrade to these errata packages which contain an updated version of Kerberos 5 which is not vulnerable to this issue.
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
CVE-2002-0391

Integer overflow in xdr_array function in RPC servers for operating systems that use libc, glibc, or other code based on SunRPC including dietlibc, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by passing a large number of arguments to xdr_array through RPC services such as rpc.cmsd and dmispd.

Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1
Red Hat / Red Hat Advanced Server
 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:2.1::as —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Important
References
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