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Multiple holes in MIT Kerberos

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 5 comments
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The Kerberos developers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have reported multiple vulnerabilities in their network authentication suite. Attackers can reportedly exploit a weakness to cause a SPNEGO GSS-API application crash, including the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind). A remote attack could also cause a key distribution center (KDC) or kinit program to crash.

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Comments (5)

Sander_Marechal ·
I got the updates for Debian Lenny even before I read about this. How is that for fast updates?
tracyanne ·
actually fairly typical of FOSS
Sander_Marechal ·
I know. But it's magic compared to that other OS :-)
Bob_Robertson ·
> compared to that other OS

Minix?
tracyanne ·
What other OS.... is there another one?

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