A bypass bug present in the Kerberos cryptographic authentication protocol for 21 years has now been fixed in patches from Microsoft, Samba, Fedora, FreeBSD, and Debian. The discoverers of the ancient ...

Two implementations of the Kerberos authentication protocol received patches this week against a vulnerability that allowed a threat actor to bypass authentication procedures. The vulnerability was ...

A buffer overflow in the MIT Kerberos 5 network authentication tool’s “krb5_aname_to_localname()” library function could be exploited to gain root privileges on the affected machine. For more, go to: ...