Gentoo: GLSA-200409-19 High: Heimdal FTP Remote Code Execution
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September 16, 2004
Several bugs exist in the Heimdal ftp daemon which could allow a remote attacker to gain root privileges.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200409-19
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: Heimdal: ftpd root escalation
Date: September 16, 2004
Bugs: #61412
ID: 200409-19
Synopsis
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Several bugs exist in the Heimdal ftp daemon which could allow a remote
attacker to gain root privileges.
Background
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Heimdal is an implementation of Kerberos 5.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-crypt/heimdal < 0.6.3 >= 0.6.3
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Przemyslaw Frasunek discovered several flaws in lukemftpd, which also
apply to Heimdal ftpd's out-of-band signal handling code.
Additionally, a potential vulnerability that could lead to Denial of
Serv...
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