Sysadmin:Security
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Revision as of 04:47, 7 October 2007
Known Problems
- Users could DoS our kerberos admin server by using the newacct-creator keytab to create lots of new principals. Minor severity
Probable Problems
- All the python we wrote needs to be double-checked
- Kerberos security holes that need to be patched urgently
- krb5-admin-server: up to date on zeus and that's all we need to worry about in terms of major major exploits at the moment --Elizabeth@ugcs.caltech.edu 05:56, 26 September 2007 (PDT)
- linux-2.6: CVE-2007-4571 and CVE-2007-4573 - local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, extremely serious on amd64. working on backporting a fix and getting it compiled by hephaestus. --Elizabeth@ugcs.caltech.edu 05:56, 26 September 2007 (PDT)
- Fixed by installing the debian linux-2.6.18-5-dpkg package (forget when)- Joshua
Possible problems
- Cfengine can be used to break into machines
