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Ubuntu 20.04 USN-5766-1: heimdal Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey December 7, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Heimdal flaw impacts various Debian releases. Ensure updates are applied quickly to avoid system failures triggered by specific network requests.
Heimdal could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libwind0-heimdal 7.7.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: libwind0-heimdal 7.5.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: libwind0-heimdal 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm2 Ubuntu 14.04 ESM: libwind0-heimdal 1.6~git20131207+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2+esm2 After a standard system update you need to restart any application using Heimdal libraries to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5766-1

CVE-2022-41916

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December 07, 2022

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/heimdal/7.7.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/heimdal/7.5.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2

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