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Debian Security Advisory DSA 1146-1 (krb5)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to krb5 announced via advisory DSA 1146-1. In certain application programs packaged in the MIT Kerberos 5 source distribution, calls to setuid() and seteuid() are not always checked for success and which may fail with some PAM configurations. A local user could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to result in privilege escalation. No exploit code is known to exist at this time.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.6-2sarge3. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.3-9. We recommend that you upgrade your krb5 packages. https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201146-1

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