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FreeBSD-SA-17:05.heimdal Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: heimdal KDC-REP service name validation vulnerability
Category: contrib
Module: heimdal
Announced: 2017-07-12
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2017-07-12 07:26:07 UTC (stable/11, 11.1-PRERELEASE)
2017-07-12 08:07:16 UTC (releng/11.1, 11.1-RC2-p1)
2017-07-12 08:07:16 UTC (releng/11.1, 11.1-RC1-p1)
2017-07-12 07:26:07 UTC (stable/11, 11.1-BETA3-p1)
2017-07-12 08:07:36 UTC (releng/11.0, 11.0-RELEASE-p11)
2017-07-12 07:26:07 UTC (stable/10, 10.3-STABLE)
2017-07-12 15:16:01 UTC (releng/10.3, 10.3-RELEASE-p20)
CVE Name: CVE-2017-11103
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including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
I. Background
Heimdal implements the Kerberos 5 network authentication protocols.
The Kerberos protocol uses "tickets" to authenticate a client to a
service.
A Key Distribution Center (KDC) is trusted by all principals registered
in that administrative "realm" to store a secret key in confidence, of
which, the proof of knowledge is used to verify the authenticity of a
principal.
II. Problem Description
There is a programming error in the Heimdal implementation that used an
unauthenticated, plain-text version of the KDC-REP service name found
in a ticket.
III. Impact
An attacker who has control of the network between a client and the
service it talks to will be able to impersonate the service, allowing
a successful man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack that circumvents the mutual
authentication.
IV. Workaround
No workaround is available, but only Kerberos enabled clients are
affected.
V. Solution
Perform one of the following:
1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date.
A reboot is recommended.
2) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch:
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64
platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
A reboot is recommended.
3) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch:
The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable
FreeBSD release branches.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-17:05/heimdal.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-17:05/heimdal.patch.asc
# gpg --verify heimdal.patch.asc
b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as
described in <URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html>.
Restart all daemons that use the library, or reboot the system.
VI. Correction details
The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each
affected branch.
Branch/path Revision
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
stable/10/ r320907
releng/10.3/ r320915
stable/11/ r320907
releng/11.0/ r320911
releng/11.1/ r320910
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the
following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a
machine with Subversion installed:
# svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number:
<URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN>
VII. References
<URL:https://www.orpheus-lyre.info/>
<URL:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11103>
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-17:05.heimdal.asc>
