Bug 125471 - pam_krb5 can crash if demand-loaded into a binary which links with libcrypto on some 64-bit arches
Summary: pam_krb5 can crash if demand-loaded into a binary which links with libcrypto ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pam_krb5
Version: 2.1
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-06-07 20:14 UTC by Nalin Dahyabhai
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-08-18 15:53:26 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2004:241 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Updated pam_krb5 package available 2004-08-18 04:00:00 UTC

Description Nalin Dahyabhai 2004-06-07 20:14:27 UTC
The pam_krb5 1.x module calls various des functions from the Kerberos
5 libdes425 library when obtaining initial v4 credentials.  On 64-bit
architectures, applications which link with OpenSSL's libcrypto pull
in a different implementation of these functions which expect
arguments to have sizes which differ from those allocated by the
pam_krb5 module, and the application may crash when pam_krb5 calls
these functions.  This incompatibility affects 64-bit platforms on
which DES_INT was not defined at compile-time for OpenSSL.

Comment 1 Nalin Dahyabhai 2004-06-07 20:15:25 UTC
Because changing either library to match the other would break its
ABI, I think the best we can do for now is to work around this in
pam_krb5.

Comment 4 John Flanagan 2004-08-18 15:53:26 UTC
An errata has been issued which should help the problem 
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being 
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, 
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report 
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-241.html



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