-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : heimdal SUMMARY : remote command execution EXPLOIT : remote DATE : 2002-10-14 15:30 UTC - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- - From www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal: Kf and kfd are used to forward credentials in a stand-alone fashion. Work on them never really finished, and in releases earlier than Heimdal 0.5 they had multiple security issues, including possible buffer overruns. Their use has never been recommended. SOLUTION It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running app-crypt/heimdal-0.4e and earlier update their systems as follows: emerge rsync emerge heimdal emerge clean - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- alizat_private - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz - - -------------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9quK2fT7nyhUpoZMRAsc1AKCIttm56nUA6fk95yYR06PD6YSyeQCgwNLU 8EL/GnnW9aSctZoIh8r5S4M= =/ANK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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