Debian DSA-977-1 : heimdal - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 22843

Synopsis

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

Description

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in heimdal, a free implementation of Kerberos 5. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities :

- CVE-2006-0582 Privilege escalation in the rsh server allows an authenticated attacker to overwrite arbitrary files and gain ownership of them.

- CVE-2006-0677 A remote attacker could force the telnet server to crash before the user logged in, resulting in inetd turning telnetd off because it forked too fast.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not expose rsh and telnet servers.

Solution

Upgrade the heimdal packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.6.3-10sarge2.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 22843

File Name: debian_DSA-977.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 10/14/2006

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:heimdal, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:3.1

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/6/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0582, CVE-2006-0677

DSA: 977

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