Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : Heimdal vulnerability (USN-3353-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101769

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams discovered that Heimdal clients incorrectly trusted unauthenticated portions of Kerberos tickets. A remote attacker could use this to impersonate trusted network services or perform other attacks.

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Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3353-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101769

File Name: ubuntu_USN-3353-1.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 10/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-11103

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkrb5-26-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libotp0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libroken18-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libsl0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libwind0-heimdal, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-clients, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-clients-x, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-kcm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-kdc, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-multidev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-servers, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:heimdal-servers-x, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libasn1-8-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libgssapi3-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhcrypto4-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhdb9-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libheimbase1-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libheimntlm0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libhx509-5-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkadm5clnt7-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkadm5srv8-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkafs0-heimdal, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libkdc2-heimdal

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Debian/dpkg-l, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/14/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11103

USN: 3353-1