[28382] in Kerberos
Re: recent kadmin vulnernability and changing passwords
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolas Williams)
Thu Sep 6 14:38:08 2007
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:37:15 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: "Edgecombe, Jason" <jwedgeco@uncc.edu>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:55:47AM -0400, Edgecombe, Jason wrote:
> Hi All,
> Does kpasswd use the kadmin protocol? I'm just looking at options for
> mitigating the vulnerability.
The Solaris kpasswd will use either the kadmin password or the kpasswd
protocol. I don't recall if the same is true for the MIT kpasswd.
But both protocols are served by the same kadmind binary. To mitigate
the issue you can setup a packet filter that blocks connections to the
kadmin port.
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