[17365] in Kerberos_V5_Development
krb5-1.9.2 is released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Yu)
Wed Nov 2 18:57:25 2011
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From: Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:56:54 -0400
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The MIT Kerberos Team announces the availability of MIT Kerberos 5
Release 1.9.2. Please see below for a list of some major changes
included, or consult the README file in the source tree for a more
detailed list of significant changes.
RETRIEVING KERBEROS 5 RELEASE 1.9.2
===================================
You may retrieve the Kerberos 5 Release 1.9.2 source from the
following URL:
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/
The homepage for the krb5-1.9.2 release is:
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.9/
Further information about Kerberos 5 may be found at the following
URL:
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/
and at the MIT Kerberos Consortium web site:
http://www.kerberos.org/
DES transition
==============
The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is widely recognized as weak. The
krb5-1.7 release contains measures to encourage sites to migrate away
- From using single-DES cryptosystems. Among these is a configuration
variable that enables "weak" enctypes, which defaults to "false"
beginning with krb5-1.8.
Major changes in 1.9.2
======================
This is primarily a bugfix release.
* Improve KDC performance by fully its disabling replay cache.
* Fix MITKRB5-SA-2011-006 KDC denial of service vulnerabilities
[CVE-2011-1527 CVE-2011-1528 CVE-2011-1529].
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