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Debian: DSA 630-1 Moderate: krb5 Buffer Overflow Remote Exploit

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Calendar Grey January 7, 2005
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Uncover the solution to a stack overflow vulnerability within the Debian kerberos software to avert unauthorized code execution.
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the MIT Kerberos 5 administration library (libkadm5srv) that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code upon exploition by an authentica...
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Summary


For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.6-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your krb5 packages.


Upgrade Instructions
--------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
-------------------------------- Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 750 fd8435f38c5bcd9b9656e441fb9abd7b
Size/MD5 checksum: 81950 5bd658c2b131f5c98492fdfd2203c9f1
Size/MD5 checksum: 5443051 663add9b5942be74a86fa860a3fa4167

Architecture independent components:

Size/MD5 checksum: 512852 a586905a2d9a4a429018bc428d...

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Severity
important
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------Package: krb5
CVE ID: CAN-2004-1189

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