Vulnerabilities in a technology widely used for network authentication have left computers running Unix, Linux and Apple Computer’s Mac OS X potentially open to attack.
The flaws could allow an online intruder to gain access to computers running a security feature known as Kerberos. The vulnerabilities, found by the developers at the Kerberos Team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, should be patched as soon as possible, Sam Hartman, engineering lead for the team, said Wednesday. “I would not expect this to lead to a worm,” Hartman said. “Most sites will patch it because patching is easy to do. Whereas, if you do have a compromise, it is a lot of work to recover.”
Source: c|net
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