Package : krb5 Vulnerability : several Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CVE-2007-2442 CVE-2007-2443 CVE-2007-2798
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MIT reference implementation of the Kerberos network authentication protocol suite, which may lead to the execution of arbitrary code. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
CVE-2007-2442
Wei Wang discovered that the free of an uninitialised pointer in the Kerberos RPC library may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2007-2443
Wei Wang discovered that insufficient input sanitising in the Kerberos RPC library may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2007-2798
It was discovered that a buffer overflow in the Kerberos administration daemon may lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.6-2sarge5. Packages for hppa, mips and powerpc are not yet available. They will be provided later.
For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.4-7etch2. Packages for hppa and mips are not yet available. They will be provided later.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.6.dfsg.1-5.
We recommend that you upgrade your Kerberos packages.
Upgrade Instructions - --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge - --------------------------------