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Debian DSA-178-1 : heimdal - remote command execution

critical Nessus Plugin ID 15015

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The SuSE Security Team has reviewed critical parts of the Heimdal package such as the kadmind and kdc server. While doing so several potential buffer overflows and other bugs have been uncovered and fixed. Remote attackers can probably gain remote root access on systems without fixes. Since these services usually run on authentication servers these bugs are considered very serious.

These problems have been fixed in version 0.4e-7.woody.4 for the current stable distribution (woody), in version 0.2l-7.4 for the old stable distribution (potato) and version 0.4e-21 for the unstable distribution (sid).

Solution

Upgrade the Heimdal packages immediately.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-178

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 15015

File Name: debian_DSA-178.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 10/17/2002

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2002

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2002-1225, CVE-2002-1226, CVE-2002-1235

CERT: 875073

DSA: 178