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Debian: DSA-2283-1 Moderate: krb5-appl Privilege Escalation Threat

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Calendar Grey July 25, 2011
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A critical vulnerability pertaining to privilege escalation has been discovered in krb5-appl impacting Debian installations. Immediate upgrade is advised for protection.
Tim Zingelmann discovered that due an incorrect configure script the kerborised FTP server failed to set the effective GID correctly, resulting in privilege escalation

Summary

Tim Zingelmann discovered that due an incorrect configure script the
kerborised FTP server failed to set the effective GID correctly,
resulting in privilege escalation.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-1.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your krb5-appl packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/



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Package: krb5-appl
CVE ID: CVE-2011-1526

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