Debian: DSA 758-1 Critical: Heimdal Buffer Overflow Remote Access
debian
July 18, 2005
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the telnet server from
Heimdal, a free implementation of Kerberos 5, that could lead to the
execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.3-10sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.6.3-11.
We recommend that you upgrade your heimdal packages.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------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
Size/MD5 checksum: 1065 7ab9f0c64ced324bfb35f4963ff9d771
Size/MD5 checksum: 1294453 511f3ad987650f6a3d2cdf06b13638e3
Size/MD5 checksum: 2885718 1d27b06ec2f818f5b4ae2b90ca0e9cb8
Architecture independent components:
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