Gentoo: GLSA-200803-31 High Severity: MIT Kerberos Remote Code Execution
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March 24, 2008
Multiple vulnerabilites have been found in MIT Kerberos 5, which could allow a remote unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code with root privileges
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200803-31
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: March 24, 2008
Bugs: #199205, #212363
ID: 200803-31
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilites have been found in MIT Kerberos 5, which could
allow a remote unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code with root
privileges.
Background
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MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos
network protocol. kadmind is the MIT Kerberos 5 administration daemon,
KDC is the Key Distribution Center.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 app-crypt/mit-krb5 < 1.6.3-r1 >= 1.6.3-r1
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