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Gentoo GLSA-200701-21 High Severity: MIT Kerberos 5 Remote Code Execution

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several security flaws identified in MIT Kerberos 5 may result in critical arbitrary code execution risks on Gentoo installations.
Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-21 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution Date: January 24, 2007 Bugs: #158810 ID: 200701-21

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-crypt/mit-krb5 < 1.5.2 >= 1.5.2
========== The Kerberos administration daemon, and possibly other applications using the GSS-API or RPC libraries, could potentially call a function poin...

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