Red Hat Security Advisory 2011-1852-02 - The krb5-appl packages provide Kerberos-aware telnet, ftp, rcp, rsh, and rlogin clients and servers. Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and a trusted third-party, the Key Distribution Center. A buffer overflow flaw was found in the MIT krb5 telnet daemon. A remote attacker who can access the telnet port of a target machine could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as root.
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