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Gentoo: GLSA-202305-12 Critical: OpenSSH Config Weakness Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey August 10, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
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Some applications shipped with MIT Kerberos 5 are vulnerable to local privilege escalation.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200608-15 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities Date: August 10, 2006 Bugs: #143240 ID: 200608-15

Synopsis ======= Some applications shipped with MIT Kerberos 5 are vulnerable to local privilege escalation.
Background ========= MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-crypt/mit-krb5 < 1.4.3-r3 >= 1.4.3-r3
========== Unchecked ...

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