gentoo-full-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200603-14.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200603-14">
  <title>Heimdal: rshd privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>
    An error in the rshd daemon of Heimdal could allow authenticated users to
    elevate privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">heimdal</product>
  <announced>2006-03-17</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-03-17</revised>
  <bug>121839</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-crypt/heimdal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.7.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.7.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    An unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability in the rshd
    server of Heimdal has been reported.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    Authenticated users could exploit the vulnerability to escalate
    privileges or to change the ownership and content of arbitrary files.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Heimdal users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-crypt/heimdal-0.7.2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-0582">CVE-2006-0582</uri>
    <uri link="https://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-02-06/">Heimdal Advisory 2006-02-06</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-03-14T18:02:33Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-03-16T09:34:15Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-03-17T10:14:03Z">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
</glsa>