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Gentoo: 202304-15 Significant: openssl Vulnerabilities and Risks

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2003
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several vulnerabilities in kdc5 identified; update issued to mitigate risks from external threats and enhance security.
There are multiple vulnerabilities in krb5.

Summary


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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-28
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                    CAN-2003-0072 CAN-2003-0028

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- From advisory:
"An attacker who has successfully authenticated to the Kerberos
administration daemon (kadmind) may be able to crash kadmind or induce
it to leak sensitive information, such as secret keys.  For the attack
to succeed, it is believed that the configuration of the kadmind
installation must allow it to successfully allocate more than INT_MAX
bytes of memory."

Read the full advisory at 
mit

- From advisory:
"A cryptographic weakness in version 4 of the Kerberos protocol allows
an attacker to use a chosen-plaintext attack to impersonate any
principal in a realm.  Additional cryptographic weaknesses in the krb4
implementation included in the MIT krb5 distributi...
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security advisory Gentoo remote exploit krb5 multiple threats

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PACKAGE : krb5 & mit-krb5
SUMMARY : multiple vulnerabilities fixed
DATE : 2003-03-31 10:01 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : krb5: <1.2.7-r2 mit-krb5: <1.2.7 : fixed krb5: version>=1.2.7-r2 mit-krb5: >=1.2.7
CVE : CAN-2003-0139 CAN-2003-0138 CAN-2003-0082

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo remote exploit krb5 multiple threats

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