An update for krb5 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
 Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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:

* CVE-2025-24528 krb5: overflow when calculating ulog block size

Bug fix:

* kdb5_util: fix DB entry flags on modification

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.

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CVE-2025-24528: Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787)