Kerberos 5 Security Alert?
Daniel Rudy
dr2867 at pacbell.net
Tue Sep 14 10:04:57 PDT 2004
At about the time of 9/13/2004 3:35 PM, Jeff Aitken stated the following:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:07:36PM -0700, Daniel Rudy wrote:
>
>>Does FreeBSD use the MIT implementation?
>
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> No, the system-supplied krb5 bits are from the Heimdal distribution.
> The MIT distribution is available as a port, but is not part of the
> base system.
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>>Why wasn't there a FreeBSD security alert for Kerberos 5?
>
>
> I may be wrong, but I think that security alerts are issued only
> for the base system (i.e., things that are part of FreeBSD proper).
> Vulnerabilities that affect ports are documented here:
>
> http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/
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> I'm sure someone will correct me if this is wrong.
>
>
> --Jeff
>
>
Ok. Then what is the current production version of FreeBSD? I
currently have 4.10-p2.
--
Daniel Rudy
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