RLSA-2026:19357

Source
https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:19357
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:19357.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:19357
Upstream
  • CVE-2026-40355
  • CVE-2026-40356
Published
2026-05-28T15:43:06.024531Z
Modified
2026-05-28T16:00:29.156730158Z
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:9 / krb5

Package

Name
krb5
Purl
pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/krb5?distro=rocky-linux-9&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0:1.21.1-10.el9_8
Database specific
{
    "yum_repository": "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:19357.json"