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Debian: DSA 1276-1 Moderate: krb5 Remote Execution Risk Advisory

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Calendar Grey April 3, 2007
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Addressed multiple vulnerabilities in the kerberos5 implementation impacting Ubuntu, resulting in potential execution of malicious code.
Updated package.

Summary


It was discovered that the krb5 telnet daemon performs insufficient
validation of usernames, which might allow unauthorized logins or
privilege escalation.

CVE-2007-0957

iDefense discovered that a buffer overflow in the logging code of the
KDC and the administration daemon might lead to arbitrary code
execution.

CVE-2007-1216

It was discovered that a double free in the RPCSEC_GSS part of the
GSS library code might lead to arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.3.6-2sarge4.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed
in version 1.4.4-7etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your Kerberos 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 packag...

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