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Gentoo: GLSA-200504-28 Normal: Heimdal Telnet Exploit Risk

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2005
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Heimdal Buffer overflow alert for Gentoo: potential exploitation details discussed. Users at risk should update promptly.
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been found in the telnet client in Heimdal which could lead to execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200504-28 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Heimdal: Buffer overflow vulnerabilities Date: April 28, 2005 Bugs: #89861 ID: 200504-28

Synopsis ======= Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been found in the telnet client in Heimdal which could lead to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5 that includes a telnet client program.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-crypt/heimdal < 0.6.4 >= 0.6.4
========== Buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the slc_add_reply() and env_opt_add() functions have been discovered by Gael Delalleau in th...

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