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Gentoo: GLSA-200904-09 High Severity: MIT Kerberos 5 Remote Threats

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Numerous security flaws in the MIT Kerberos 5 implementation on Gentoo may result in remote code execution risks and Denial of Service vulnerabilities.
Multiple vulnerabilites in MIT Kerberos 5 might allow remote unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: April 08, 2009 Bugs: #262736, #263398 ID: 200904-09

Synopsis ======= Multiple vulnerabilites in MIT Kerberos 5 might allow remote unauthenticated users to execute arbitrary code with root privileges.
Background ========= 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 ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-crypt/mit-krb5 < 1.6.3-r6 >= 1.6.3-r6
========== Multiple vulnerabilities h...

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