Debian: DSA 521-2 Severe: krb5 Buffer Overflow Remote Threat

In their advisory MITKRB5-SA-2004-001, the MIT Kerberos announced the
existence of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the
krb5_aname_to_localname function. This function is only used if
aname_to_localname is enabled in the configuration (this is not
enabled by default).

For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been
fixed in version 1.2.4-5woody5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.3.3-2.

We recommend that you update your krb5 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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