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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:04:58 -0700
From:      Daniel Rudy <dr2867@pacbell.net>
To:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kerberos 5 Security Alert?
Message-ID:  <414724BA.60908@pacbell.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040913223543.GA28187@eagle.aitken.com>
References:  <41461A28.1060308@pacbell.net> <20040913223543.GA28187@eagle.aitken.com>

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At about the time of 9/13/2004 3:35 PM, Jeff Aitken stated the following:

> On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:07:36PM -0700, Daniel Rudy wrote:
> 
>>Does FreeBSD use the MIT implementation?  
> 
> 
> No, the system-supplied krb5 bits are from the Heimdal distribution.
> The MIT distribution is available as a port, but is not part of the
> base system.
> 
> 
> 
>>Why wasn't there a FreeBSD security alert for Kerberos 5?  
> 
> 
> I may be wrong, but I think that security alerts are issued only
> for the base system (i.e., things that are part of FreeBSD proper).
> Vulnerabilities that affect ports are documented here:
> 
>     http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/
> 
> I'm sure someone will correct me if this is wrong.
> 
> 
> --Jeff
> 
> 

Ok.  Then what is the current production version of FreeBSD?  I
currently have 4.10-p2.
-- 
Daniel Rudy



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