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USN-3353-1: Heimdal vulnerability

14 July 2017

Heimdal could allow unintended access to network services.

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Releases

Packages

  • heimdal - Heimdal Kerberos Network Authentication Protocol

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.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 17.04
Ubuntu 16.10
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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

References

Related notices

  • USN-3353-4: libsmbclient, samba
  • USN-3353-3: libkrb5-26-heimdal, heimdal
  • USN-3353-2: libpam-smbpass, smbclient, libsmbsharemodes-dev, libwbclient0, samba-testsuite, libparse-pidl-perl, libnss-winbind, libsmbsharemodes0, samba-dev, libsmbclient-dev, ctdb, samba-dsdb-modules, samba-doc, libwbclient-dev, python-samba, samba, samba-common-bin, libsmbclient, registry-tools, samba-common, samba-vfs-modules, libpam-winbind, samba-libs, winbind