Package: heimdal-servers Severity: critical Tags: security The following is from Secunia advisory SA15718 which may be found at http://secunia.com/advisories/15718/
DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been reported in Heimdal, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in telnetd within the "getterminaltype()" function when processing the terminal type received from a telnet client. Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Update to version 0.6.5 or 0.7. ftp://ftp.pdc.kth.se/pub/heimdal/src/ PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY: Reported by vendor. ORIGINAL ADVISORY: http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2005-06-20/ -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
