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<glsa id="200608-21">
  <title>Heimdal: Multiple local privilege escalation vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Certain Heimdal components, ftpd and rcp, are vulnerable to a local
    privilege escalation.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Heimdal</product>
  <announced>2006-08-23</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-08-23</revised>
  <bug>143371</bug>
  <access>local</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-crypt/heimdal" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.7.2-r3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.7.2-r3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The ftpd and rcp applications provided by Heimdal fail to check the
    return value of calls to seteuid().
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary
    code with elevated privileges.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Heimdal users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-crypt/heimdal-0.7.2-r3"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/">Official advisory</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3083">CVE-2006-3083</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3084">CVE-2006-3084</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-08-12T15:34:55Z">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-08-13T22:34:21Z">
    daxomatic
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-08-14T15:19:23Z">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>
