Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Heimdal

The fix for CVE-2022-3437 involved changing the memcmp function to run in constant time, as well as providing a workaround for a compiler bug by adding comparisons of the result with the value “!= 0” to the memcmp function. When these patches were backported to the heimdal-7.7.1 and heimdal-7.8.0...

The fix for CVE-2022-3437 included changing memcmp to be constant time and a workaround for a compiler bug by adding "!= 0" comparisons to the result of memcmp. When these patches were backported to the heimdal-7.7.1 and heimdal-7.8.0 branches (and possibly other branches) a logic inversion sneaked in causing the validation of message integrity codes in gssapi/arcfour to be inverted.

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PT-2022-6537

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions heimdal versions 7.7.1 through 7.8.0 Description The issue is related to the implementation of the Kerberos5 protocol in heimdal, specifically concerning incorrect validation of message integrity codes. This can allow a remote attacker to caus...