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Mandriva update for krb5 Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA24979  
Release Date: 2007-04-23

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Mandriva Linux 2007.0


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Description:
Mandriva has issued an update for krb5. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is due to an error where modules are loaded from a certain potentially insecure location and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code with escalated privileges.

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

-- Mandriva Linux 2007.1 --

1f920aac69205ebc55feb4483b88f1be 2007.1/i586/ftp-client-krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
33c691d619af154edf28417b38c1ab90 2007.1/i586/ftp-server-krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
ffd93d8b493f4d3cad20d1387021ed91 2007.1/i586/krb5-server-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
5b1dde7e492cdd0fc5b131c4df008bf3 2007.1/i586/krb5-workstation-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
f65941778953f0396f3307872d05e5ae 2007.1/i586/libkrb53-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
a28df16eab4e38fa425ea8f2c0cd482d 2007.1/i586/libkrb53-devel-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
a6866af02d2dcad5688a9a722c42abaf 2007.1/i586/telnet-client-krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
d950b8428b80b7aa72b8b62228616fab 2007.1/i586/telnet-server-krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
f3d13c1b5c10f990288e2bb1ae8fbec9 2007.1/SRPMS/krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.src.rpm

-- Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64 --

84de03a0a6a6e943794ec27a67bbcefd 2007.1/x86_64/ftp-client-krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
3f8e1a9bd6af23839750f6376dd5c7b4 2007.1/x86_64/ftp-server-krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
0a0c097aea83b5e524a15706cd73bcd1 2007.1/x86_64/krb5-server-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
95c2232afc4394f48731c1f9410eea9d 2007.1/x86_64/krb5-workstation-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
6877a85fe2ce8766bba68090163fb67d 2007.1/x86_64/lib64krb53-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
19506808bf27f7eeac1bbdb5c0efa98c 2007.1/x86_64/lib64krb53-devel-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
147dec07b177c00284559c1d205779bb 2007.1/x86_64/telnet-client-krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
f133917514ef86be627e63debb1ca379 2007.1/x86_64/telnet-server-krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
f3d13c1b5c10f990288e2bb1ae8fbec9 2007.1/SRPMS/krb5-1.5.2-6.2mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Original Advisory:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKA-2007:026
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30349



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