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Debian DSA 269-2: Critical Heimdal Cryptographic Weakness Remote Threat

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2003
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Following the recent cryptographic flaw identified with heimdal software, it's crucial for system admins to urgently update affected packages and apply patches
Due to overzealous applied patches, the security update DSA 269-1introduced problems in some installations, causing the hprop serviceto fail.

Summary

Due to overzealous applied patches, the security update DSA 269-1
introduced problems in some installations, causing the hprop service
to fail. This is corrected with the update below.

For completeness, here is the original advisory text:

A cryptographic weakness in version 4 of the Kerberos protocol allows
an attacker to use a chosen-plaintext attack to impersonate any
principal in a realm. Additional cryptographic weaknesses in the krb4
implementation permit the use of cut-and-paste attacks to fabricate
krb4 tickets for unauthorized client principals if triple-DES keys are
used to key krb4 services. These attacks can subvert a site's entire
Kerberos authentication infrastructure.

This version of the heimdal package changes the default behavior and
disallows cross-realm authentication for Kerberos version 4. Because
of the fundamental nature of the problem, cross-realm authentication
in Kerberos version 4 cannot be made secure and sites should avoid its
use. A new opt...

Read the Full Advisory

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