Secunia Security Advisory - Gentoo has issued an update for mit-krb5. This fixes a security issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges.
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TITLE:
Gentoo update for mit-krb5
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21461
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21461/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Privilege escalation
WHERE:
Local system
OPERATING SYSTEM:
Gentoo Linux 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/339/
DESCRIPTION:
Gentoo has issued an update for mit-krb5. This fixes a security
issue, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform
certain actions with escalated privileges.
For more information:
SA21402
SOLUTION:
Update to "app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.4.3-r3" or later.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200608-15.xml
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA21402:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21402/
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