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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2283-1 (krb5-appl)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

12 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to krb5-appl announced via advisory DSA 2283-1.

Insight

Insight

Tim Zingelmann discovered that due an incorrect configure script the kerborised FTP server failed to set the effective GID correctly, resulting in privilege escalation. The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-1.1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

Solution

Solution

We recommend that you upgrade your krb5-appl packages.

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