RLSA-2026:19357 Important: krb5 security update

Kerberos is a network authentication system, which can improve the security of your network by eliminating the insecure practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form. It allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other with the help of a trusted third party, the...

CVE-2008-0947

Buffer overflow in the RPC library used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 krb5 1.4 through 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors...

CVE-2002-1235

The kadmserin function in 1 the Kerberos v4compatibility administration daemon kadmind4 in the MIT Kerberos 5 krb5 krb5-1.2.6 and earlier, 2 kadmind in KTH Kerberos 4 eBones before 1.2.1, and 3 kadmind in KTH Kerberos 5 Heimdal before 0.5.1 when compiled with Kerberos 4 support, does not properly...