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MIT Warns of Critical Vulnerabilities in Kerberos 5

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the heightened-state-of-alertness dept.

kinrowan writes "MIT, inventor of Kerberos, has announced a pair of vulnerabities in the software that will allow an attacker to either execute a DOS attack or execute code on the machine. Some details of the story are at SearchSecurity as well as ComputerWeekly. Details of the advisories themselves are also available. The vulnerabilities also affect the VPN 3000 line of Cisco VPN concentrators."

2 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. same goes for the XP SP2 writeup by MOMOCROME · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    read the comments, even the +5 buggers make it clear that the writeup and the source article were complete rancid crap, even perhaps outright fabrications!

    the story got posted the way it did simply because it was sensational and slammed microsoft in a super-snotty manner. so hey, my point still stands, whaddya know.

  2. Re:Wonder if Windows Kerberos will be affected? by killjoe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1) I said "if you are correct". If he was not correct then it goes without saying that my statement is moot.

    2,3,4) The GPL would have prevented that.

    "It's all moot, because most of us will never know"

    The GPL would have prevented that.

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    evil is as evil does