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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
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Multiple vulnerabilites in MIT Kerberos 5 might allow remote
unauthenticated users 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-r6 >= 1.6.3-r6
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Multiple vulnerabilities h...
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