RLSA-2026:19145

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:19145
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:19145.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:19145
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-40355
  • CVE-2026-40356
Published
2026-05-29T16:03:24.060458Z
Modified
2026-05-29T16:30:33.936238710Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Important: krb5 security update
Details

Kerberos is a network authentication system, which can improve the security of your network by eliminating the insecure practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form. It allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other with the help of a trusted third party, the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC).

Security Fix(es):

  • krb5: MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5): Denial of Service via integer underflow and out-of-bounds read (CVE-2026-40356)

  • krb5: MIT Kerberos 5: Denial of Service via NULL pointer dereference in NegoEx mechanism (CVE-2026-40355)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

References
Credits
    • Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
    • Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:10 / krb5

Package

Name
krb5
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/krb5?distro=rocky-linux-10&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:1.21.3-10.el10_2
Database specific
{
    "yum_repository": "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:19145.json"