ubuntu · CVE-2017-6594

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Priority: low Published: 2017-08-28 19:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:36:30 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-6594 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (heimdal), 17 status rows across 17 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 11, ignored 5, released 1.

Description:

The transit path validation code in Heimdal before 7.3 might allow attackers to bypass the capath policy protection mechanism by leveraging failure to add the previous hop realm to the transit path of issued tickets.

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