Gentoo: GLSA-202309-05 High: Kerberos 5 Remote Execution Threat
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April 3, 2007
Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in unauthenticated remote root code execution.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200704-02
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution
Date: April 03, 2007
Bugs: #171889
ID: 200704-02
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in
unauthenticated remote root code execution.
Background
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MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos
network protocol.
Affected packages
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1 app-crypt/mit-krb5 < 1.5.2-r1 >= 1.5.2-r1
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The Kerberos telnet daemon fails to properly handle usernames allowing
unauthorized access to any account (CVE-2007-0956). The Kerber...
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