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Kerberos 5 issues

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Check for kerberos

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote host is running Kerberos 5.

There are multiple flaws which affect this product,
make sure you are running the latest version with
the latest patches.

*** Nessus could not check for any of the flaws
*** and solely relied on the existence of the service
*** to issue an alert, so this might be a false positive

Solution : Upgrade to the latest version of MIT kerberos
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 11078, 11079, 6712, 6713, 6714, 7184, 7185

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2003 Renaud Deraison

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