Security update for nfs-utils

SUSE Security Update: Security update for nfs-utils
Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2013:1668-1
Rating: moderate
References: #628887 #661493 #716463 #806840 #813464
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS

  • An update that solves one vulnerability and has four fixes is now available.

    Description:


    nfs-utils receives hereby a LTSS roll-up security and
    bugfix update.

    * CVE-2013-1923: Allow DNS lookups to be avoided when
    determining kerberos identity of server. The
    NFS_GSSD_AVOID_DNS sysconfig variable must to be set for
    this to take full effect as some installations could be
    negatively affected by this change

    More bugs have been fixed:

    * Fixed bugs with the info provided by "showmount -e"
    not being updated correctly. (bnc#661493)
    * nfsserver.init: Fix initialization of
    /var/lib/nfs/state and run sm-notify at start up time when
    necessary (bnc#628887)
    * Increase number of supported krb5 mounts from 32 to
    256. (bnc#716463)
    * Avoid crash if krb5_init_context fails (bnc#806840)

    Security Issue reference:

    * CVE-2013-1923
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    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):
    • nfs-utils-1.0.7-36.39.42.1

    References:

    • http://support.novell.com/security/cve/CVE-2013-1923.html
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/628887
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/661493
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/716463
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/806840
    • https://bugzilla.novell.com/813464
    • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=d09650071376a0484c040c98456e0ff5