Debian: DSA 476-1 Critical: heimdal Cross-Realm Impersonation

According to a security advisory from the heimdal project:



heimdal, a suite of software implementing the Kerberos protocol, has
"a cross-realm vulnerability allowing someone with control over a
realm to impersonate anyone in the cross-realm trust path."

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.4e-7.woody.8.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.1-1.

We recommend that you update your heimdal package.

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 3.0 alias woody

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