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Bug#693931: Please unblock krb5 1.10.1+dfsg-3



package: release.debian.org

Hi.  This includes a fix that causes many gss-using applications to
crash on some systems and a fix requested by the security team.
Removing the call to unload gss plugins does create a bit of a leak if
libgssapi_krb5 is dlclosed and dlopened repeatedly, plugins are
involved, and the plugins do not trigger a circular reference.  That's
rare. Normally either plugins are not involved, or there is a circular
reference.  Also, I no of no application that loads and unloads
libgssapi_krb5.  I think the memory leak is better than a crash of
unrelated applications.  Upstream and I are discussing longer-term
solutions.

krb5 (1.10.1+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Kadmind crash only triggered by admin users, cve-2012-1013, Closes:
    #687647
  * Don't unload GSS-API plugins to avoid crashing applications that use
    GSS-API on systems with plugins installed, Closes: #693741

 -- Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Nov 2012 17:35:04 -0500


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