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June 8, 2009, 8:36 am
June 8, 2009, 8:36 am
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released version 1.7 of its Kerberos network suite. The previous release, version 1.6.3, contained several known security vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-0844, CVE-2009-0845, CVE-2009-0846 and CVE-2009-0847), which had previously only been fixed in patch form.
In addition to fixing the vulnerabilities, Kerberos 1.7 also includes some new security features. The developers have improved security within the Kerberos v5 protocol by marking encryption protocols such as DES (Data Encryption Standard) as weak and adding a configuration variable that by default is set to disable these weak encryption types. Users can re-activate them by using the new allow_weak_crypto setting.
