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Debian DSA-3912-1: Heimdal Critical Man-In-The-Middle Attack

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Calendar Grey July 16, 2017
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To bolster your Debian system's security against CVE-2017-11103, upgrade Heimdal packages by updating your package list and then upgrading the components for enhanced protection
Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams reported that Heimdal, an implementation of Kerberos 5 that aims to be compatible with MIT Kerberos, trusts metadata taken fro...
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Summary

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For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed
in version 1.6~rc2+dfsg-9+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.4.0.dfsg.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your heimdal packages.

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



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Package: heimdal
CVE ID: CVE-2017-11103

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