Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3353-3
24th July, 2017
heimdal vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Heimdal could allow unintended access to network services.
Software description
USN-3353-1 fixed a vulnerability in Heimdal. This update provides
the corresponding updade for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams discovered
that Heimdal clients incorrectly trusted unauthenticated portions
of Kerberos tickets. A remote attacker could use this to impersonate
trusted network services or perform other attacks.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libkrb5-26-heimdal 1.6~git20120311.dfsg.1-2ubuntu0.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart any applications
using Heimdal libraries to make all the necessary changes.
References
CVE-2017-11103
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24th July, 2017
heimdal vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Heimdal could allow unintended access to network services.
Software description
- heimdal - Heimdal Kerberos Network Authentication Protocol
USN-3353-1 fixed a vulnerability in Heimdal. This update provides
the corresponding updade for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Jeffrey Altman, Viktor Dukhovni, and Nicolas Williams discovered
that Heimdal clients incorrectly trusted unauthenticated portions
of Kerberos tickets. A remote attacker could use this to impersonate
trusted network services or perform other attacks.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libkrb5-26-heimdal 1.6~git20120311.dfsg.1-2ubuntu0.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart any applications
using Heimdal libraries to make all the necessary changes.
References
CVE-2017-11103
Continue reading...
