recent kadmin vulnernability and changing passwords

[Nicolas Williams]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 08:55:47AM -0400, Edgecombe, Jason wrote:
> Hi All,
> Does kpasswd use the kadmin protocol? I'm just looking at options for
> mitigating the vulnerability.

The Solaris kpasswd will use either the kadmin password or the kpasswd
protocol.  I don't recall if the same is true for the MIT kpasswd.

But both protocols are served by the same kadmind binary.  To mitigate
the issue you can setup a packet filter that blocks connections to the
kadmin port.