metadata/glsa/glsa-200405-23.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200405-23">
  <title>Heimdal: Kerberos 4 buffer overflow in kadmin</title>
  <synopsis>
    A possible buffer overflow in the Kerberos 4 component of Heimdal has been
    discovered.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Heimdal</product>
  <announced>May 27, 2004</announced>
  <revised>May 27, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>50208</bug>
  <access>remote </access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-crypt/heimdal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.6.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.6.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A buffer overflow was discovered in kadmind, a server for administrative
    access to the Kerberos database.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    By sending a specially formatted message to kadmind, a remote attacker may
    be able to crash kadmind causing a denial of service, or execute arbitrary
    code with the permissions of the kadmind process.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    For a temporary workaround, providing you do not require Kerberos 4
    support, you may turn off Kerberos 4 kadmin by running kadmind with the
    --no-kerberos4 option.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Heimdal users should upgrade to the latest stable version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv ">=app-crypt/heimdal-0.6.2"
    # emerge ">=app-crypt/heimdal-0.6.2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2004-05-06/">Heimdal 0.6.2 Release Notice</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0434">CAN-2004-0434</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>