<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <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 ">=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>