Debian: DSA-731-1 Moderate Risk of Buffer Overflow in Krb4 Security

Gaël Delalleau discovered a buffer overflow in the env_opt_add()
function that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

CAN-2005-0469

Gaël Delalleau discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the
LINEMODE suboptions in telnet clients. This can lead to the
execution of arbitrary code when connected to a malicious server.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1-8-2.4.

For the testing distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.2-11.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.2-11.2.

We recommend that you upgrade your krb4 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 up...