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Gentoo: GLSA-200404-09 Moderate: Heimdal Cross-Realm Impersonation

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Calendar Grey April 9, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The Heimdal cross-realm trust vulnerability in Gentoo may allow unauthorized user impersonation, making it crucial to follow security protocols to enhance protection against this threat
Heimdal contains cross-realm vulnerability allowing someone with control over a realm to impersonate anyone in the cross-realm trust path

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200404-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Cross-realm trust vulnerability in Heimdal
Date: April 09, 2004 Bugs: #46590 ID: 200404-09

Synopsis ======= Heimdal contains cross-realm vulnerability allowing someone with control over a realm to impersonate anyone in the cross-realm trust path.
Background ========= Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- app-crypt/heimdal <= 0.6.0 >= 0.6.1
========== Heimdal does not properly perform certain consistency checks for cross-realm requests, which allows remote attackers with control of a realm to impersonate others in the cross-realm trus...

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