Gentoo Linux Advisory: kadmind

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-008
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PACKAGE : kth-krb & heimdal
SUMMARY : Remote root explot
DATE    : 2002-10-26 16:00 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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All versions of the kadmind daemon are vulnerable to a remote root
exploit, if compiled with support for the Kerberos 4 kadmin protocol.

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
app-crypt/heimdal-0.5 & app-crypt/kth-krb-1.2 and earlier update their
systems as follows:

emerge rsync
emerge kth-krb
emerge heimdal
emerge clean

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