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Debian 5.0 DSA-2052-1 Critical: Krb5 Denial Of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey May 24, 2010
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Enhance your krb5 software to address the denial of service vulnerability in Debian, which arises from a null pointer dereference issue.
Shawn Emery discovered that in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5), a system for authenticating users and services on a network, a null pointer dereference flaw in the Generic Security Service A...
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Summary

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-5lenny4.

For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.8.1+dfsg-3.

For the testing distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.8.1+dfsg-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your krb5 packages.

Upgrade instructions
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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 5.0 alias lenny

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 848699 4e016d8242b7648424be814a39616645
Size/MD5 checksum: 1537 2ffe877c62a1e84a71bf40ca09b00891
Size/MD5 checksum: 11647547 08d6ce311204803a...

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