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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200608-21
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  Severity: High
     Title: Heimdal: Multiple local privilege escalation
            vulnerabilities
      Date: August 23, 2006
      Bugs: #143371
        ID: 200608-21

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Synopsis
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Certain Heimdal components, ftpd and rcp, are vulnerable to a local
privilege escalation.

Background
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Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5.

Affected packages
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     Package            /  Vulnerable  /                    Unaffected
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  1  app-crypt/heimdal     < 0.7.2-r3                      >= 0.7.2-r3

Description
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The ftpd and rcp applications provided by Heimdal fail to check the
return value of calls to seteuid().

Impact
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A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary
code with elevated privileges.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Heimdal users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-crypt/heimdal-0.7.2-r3"

References
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  [ 1 ] Official advisory
          [ 2 ] CVE-2006-3083
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3083
  [ 3 ] CVE-2006-3084
        http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3084

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200608-21

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.

License
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Copyright 2006 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/