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Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10: USN-719-1 Critical: libpam-krb5 Auth Bypass

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Calendar Grey February 12, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Recent vulnerabilities discovered in libpam-krb5 permit local users to evade authentication processes, potentially obtaining root access on Ubuntu systems.
It was discovered that pam_krb5 parsed environment variables when run with setuid applications

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security advisory Ubuntu local exploit authentication bypass libpam-krb5

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libpam-krb5 vulnerabilities

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security advisory Ubuntu local exploit authentication bypass libpam-krb5

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