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Heimdal setuid Security Issue

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SA21436

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Release Date:

2006-08-09

Popularity:

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Critical:

Less critical

Impact:

Privilege escalation

Where:

Local system

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Heimdal 0.5.x
Heimdal 0.6.x
Heimdal 0.7.x

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Solution:
Apply patch for version 0.7.2:
ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/heimdal/src/heimdal-0.7.2-setuid-patch.txt

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits:
* Tom Yu, MIT
* Michael Calmer and Marcus Meissner, SUSE

Original Advisory:
http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/

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