diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index a3494e3317b..d01c6acc521 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ Release 2.0.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-8243. Security support broken in CLI (manual) failover controller
     (todd)
 
+    HADOOP-8251. Fix SecurityUtil.fetchServiceTicket after HADOOP-6941 (todd)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HADOOP-7454 SUBTASKS
 
     HADOOP-7455. HA: Introduce HA Service Protocol Interface. (suresh)
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/SecurityUtil.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/SecurityUtil.java
index ad982bc56d3..b7d268699c9 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/SecurityUtil.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/security/SecurityUtil.java
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ public class SecurityUtil {
       } else {
         principalClass = Class.forName("sun.security.krb5.PrincipalName");
         credentialsClass = Class.forName("sun.security.krb5.Credentials");
-        krb5utilClass = Class.forName("sun.security.jgss.krb5");
+        krb5utilClass = Class.forName("sun.security.jgss.krb5.Krb5Util");
       }
       @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
       Constructor principalConstructor = principalClass.getConstructor(String.class,