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Gentoo: 200507-11 High: MIT Kerberos 5 DoS and Code Execution Threat

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2005
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Implement an enhancement to address weaknesses in MIT Kerberos 5 that could compromise security via possible remote attacks and denial of service (DoS) issues.
MIT Kerberos 5 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack and remote execution of arbitrary code, possibly leading to the compromise of the entire Kerberos realm

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: July 12, 2005 Bugs: #98799 ID: 200507-11

Synopsis ======= MIT Kerberos 5 is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack and remote execution of arbitrary code, possibly leading to the compromise of the entire Kerberos realm.
Background ========= MIT Kerberos 5 is the free implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-crypt/mit-krb5 < 1.4.1-r1 >= 1.4.1-r1
========== Daniel Wachdorf discovered that MIT Kerberos ...

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