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[USN-3353-3] Heimdal vulnerability

Posted on 24 July 2017
Ubuntu Security

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3353-3
July 24, 2017

heimdal vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM

Summary:

Heimdal could allow unintended access to network services.

Software Description:
- heimdal: Heimdal Kerberos Network Authentication Protocol

Details:

USN-3353-1 fixed a vulnerability in Heimdal. This update provides
the corresponding updade for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

=C2=A0Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams discovered
=C2=A0that Heimdal clients incorrectly trusted unauthenticated portions
=C2=A0of Kerberos tickets. A remote attacker could use this to impersonate
=C2=A0trusted network services or perform other attacks.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 12.04 ESM:
=C2=A0 libkrb5-26-heimdal=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A01.6~git20120311.dfsg.1-2ubuntu0.2

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications
using Heimdal libraries to make all the necessary changes.

References:
=C2=A0 https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3353-3
=C2=A0 https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3353-1
=C2=A0 CVE-2017-11103

 

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