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Kerberos V5 setuid Security Issue

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SA21402

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Release Date:

2006-08-09

Last Update:

2006-08-18

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Kerberos 5.x

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Solution:
Apply patches. Note that the previous patches (revision 18419 in the diff header) introduced a new bug. Updated patches have been released to correct this problem.

Kerberos V5 1.5:
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2006-001-patch_1.5.txt

Kerberos V5 1.4.3:
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2006-001-patch_1.4.3.txt

Fixes will also be included in the upcoming 1.5.1 and 1.4.4 versions.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Michael Calmer and Marcus Meissner, SUSE.

Changelog:
2006-08-16: Added US-CERT reference.
2006-08-18: Added information about updated patches.

Original Advisory:
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2006-001-setuid.txt

Other References:
US-CERT VU#401660:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/401660

US-CERT VU#580124:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/580124

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