7.5 - DSA-269

Due to overzealous applied patches, the security update DSA 269-1 introduced problems in some installations, causing the hprop service to fail. This is corrected with the update below.

For completeness, here is the original advisory text:

A cryptographic weakness in version 4 of the Kerberos protocol allows an attacker to use a chosen-plaintext attack to impersonate any principal in a realm. Additional cryptographic weaknesses in the krb4 implementation permit the use of cut-and-paste attacks to fabricate krb4 tickets for unauthorized client principals if triple-DES keys are used to key krb4 services. These attacks can subvert a site's entire Kerberos authentication infrastructure.

This version of the heimdal package changes the default behavior and disallows cross-realm authentication for Kerberos version 4. Because of the fundamental nature of the problem, cross-realm authentication in Kerberos version 4 cannot be made secure and sites should avoid its use. A new option (--kerberos4-cross-realm) is provided to the kdc command to re-enable version 4 cross-realm authentication for those sites that must use this functionality but desire the other security fixes.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 0.4e-7.woody.8.

The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected by this problem, since it isn't compiled against kerberos 4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) the original problem has been fixed in version 0.5.2-1 and since it was a new upstream version did not contain the problem mentioned above.

We recommend that you upgrade your heimdal packages.