MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution

MIT Kerberos 5: Arbitrary Remote Code Execution Multiple vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 could potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code. mit-krb5 2007-01-24 2007-01-24 158810 remote 1.5.2 1.5.2

MIT Kerberos 5 is a suite of applications that implement the Kerberos network protocol.

The Kerberos administration daemon, and possibly other applications using the GSS-API or RPC libraries, could potentially call a function pointer in a freed heap buffer, or attempt to free an uninitialized pointer.

A remote attacker may be able to crash an affected application, or potentially execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All MIT Kerberos 5 users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.5.2"

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