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Gentoo: GLSA-202311-45 High: OpenSSL Certificate Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey May 27, 2004
Scroller Gentoo
Critical warning issued regarding a vulnerability in Heimdal's kadmin related to buffer overflow, which may result in potential denial of service and unauthorized code execution.
A possible buffer overflow in the Kerberos 4 component of Heimdal has been discovered.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200405-23 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Heimdal: Kerberos 4 buffer overflow in kadmin Date: May 27, 2004 Bugs: #50208 ID: 200405-23

Synopsis ======= A possible buffer overflow in the Kerberos 4 component of Heimdal has been discovered.
Background ========= Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-crypt/heimdal < 0.6.2 >= 0.6.2
========== A buffer overflow was discovered in kadmind, a server for administrative access to the Kerberos database.
Impact ===== By sending a specially formatted message to kadmind, a remote attacker may be able to cra...

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