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+<?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>August 23, 2006</announced>
+ <revised>August 23, 2006: 01</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 &quot;&gt;=app-crypt/heimdal-0.7.2-r3&quot;</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/advisory/2006-08-08/">Official advisory</uri>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3083">CVE-2006-3083</uri>
+ <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3084">CVE-2006-3084</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:34:55 +0000">
+ koon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 13 Aug 2006 22:34:21 +0000">
+ daxomatic
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:19:23 +0000">
+ falco
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>