- Kerberos Version 5, Release 1.5
+ Kerberos Version 5, Release 1.5.1
Release Notes
The MIT Kerberos Team
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The source distribution of Kerberos 5 comes in a gzipped tarfile,
-krb5-1.5.tar.gz. Instructions on how to extract the entire
+krb5-1.5.1.tar.gz. Instructions on how to extract the entire
distribution follow.
If you have the GNU tar program and gzip installed, you can simply do:
- gtar zxpf krb5-1.5.tar.gz
+ gtar zxpf krb5-1.5.1.tar.gz
If you don't have GNU tar, you will need to get the FSF gzip
distribution and use gzcat:
- gzcat krb5-1.5.tar.gz | tar xpf -
+ gzcat krb5-1.5.1.tar.gz | tar xpf -
-Both of these methods will extract the sources into krb5-1.5/src and
-the documentation into krb5-1.5/doc.
+Both of these methods will extract the sources into krb5-1.5.1/src and
+the documentation into krb5-1.5.1/doc.
Building and Installing Kerberos 5
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and logging in as "guest" with password "guest".
+Major changes in 1.5.1
+----------------------
+
+The only significant change in krb5-1.5.1 is to fix the security
+vulnerabilities decribed in MITKRB5-SA-2006-001, which are local
+privilege escalation vulnerabilities in applications running on Linux
+and AIX.
+
+krb5-1.5.1 changes by ticket ID
+-------------------------------
+
+Listed below are the RT tickets of bugs fixed in krb5-1.5.1. Please see
+
+http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/NoAuth/krb5-1.5/fixed-1.5.1.html
+
+for a current listing with links to the complete tickets.
+
+3904 fix uninitialized vars
+3956 gssapi compilation errors on Windows
+3971 broken configure test for dlopen
+3998 Document add_entry in ktutil man page
+4012 reverse test for copy_oid_set in lib/gssapi/krb5/indicate_mechs.c
+4036 reject configure option for static libraries
+4037 respect LDFLAGS in NetBSD build
+4063 gss mech glue implementation should validate opaque pointer types
+4088 gss_import_name can fail to call gssint_initialize_library()
+4125 fix MITKRB5-SA-2006-001: multiple local privilege escalation
+ vulnerabilities
+4137 ksu spuriously fails when exiting shell when ksu-ing to non-root
+
Major changes in 1.5
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