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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200608-21.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200608-21">
<title>Heimdal: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
Certain Heimdal components, ftpd and rcp, are vulnerable to a local
privilege escalation.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">Heimdal</product>
<announced>August 23, 2006</announced>
<revised>August 23, 2006: 01</revised>
<bug>143371</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="app-crypt/heimdal" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.7.2-r3</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.7.2-r3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
The ftpd and rcp applications provided by Heimdal fail to check the
return value of calls to seteuid().
</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>
A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary
code with elevated privileges.
</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 &quot;&gt;=app-crypt/heimdal-0.7.2-r3&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/">Official advisory</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3083">CVE-2006-3083</uri>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3084">CVE-2006-3084</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:34:55 +0000">
koon
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:34:21 +0000">
daxomatic
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:19:23 +0000">
falco
</metadata>
</glsa>