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Gentoo: GLSA-200707-11 High: MIT Kerberos Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 26, 2007
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Several security flaws in MIT Kerberos 5 may enable remote code execution with elevated privileges, posing risks to Gentoo environments.
Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in remote code execution with root privileges by unauthenticated users.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200707-11 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary remote code execution Date: July 25, 2007 Bugs: #183338 ID: 200707-11

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in remote code execution with root privileges by unauthenticated users.
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-r3 >= 1.5.2-r3
========== kadmind is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the RPC library shipped with MIT Kerberos 5. It fails to p...

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