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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2019-12098): Heimdal vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Published
May 15, 2019
Added
Oct 14, 2022
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

In the client side of Heimdal before 7.6.0, failure to verify anonymous PKINIT PA-PKINIT-KX key exchange permits a man-in-the-middle attack. This issue is in krb5_init_creds_step in lib/krb5/init_creds_pw.c.

Solutions

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-heimdal-clientsubuntu-pro-upgrade-heimdal-clients-xubuntu-pro-upgrade-heimdal-kcmubuntu-pro-upgrade-heimdal-kdcubuntu-pro-upgrade-heimdal-serversubuntu-pro-upgrade-heimdal-servers-xubuntu-pro-upgrade-libgssapi3-heimdalubuntu-pro-upgrade-libkdc2-heimdalubuntu-pro-upgrade-libkrb5-26-heimdalubuntu-upgrade-heimdal-clientsubuntu-upgrade-heimdal-kcmubuntu-upgrade-heimdal-kdcubuntu-upgrade-heimdal-serversubuntu-upgrade-libgssapi3-heimdalubuntu-upgrade-libkdc2-heimdalubuntu-upgrade-libkrb5-26-heimdal

References

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