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Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package krb5  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1510-KRB5-655726
  • published10 Sept 2020
  • disclosed11 Jul 2011
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Introduced: 11 Jul 2011

CVE-2011-1526  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream krb5 package and not the krb5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

ftpd.c in the GSS-API FTP daemon in MIT Kerberos Version 5 Applications (aka krb5-appl) 1.0.1 and earlier does not check the krb5_setegid return value, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended group access restrictions, and create, overwrite, delete, or read files, via standard FTP commands, related to missing autoconf tests in a configure script.

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