krb5-1.10.4 is released

[Tom Yu]

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The MIT Kerberos Team announces the availability of MIT Kerberos 5
Release 1.10.4.  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 1.10.4
====================================

You may retrieve the Kerberos 5 Release 1.10.4 source from the
following URL:

        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/

The homepage for the krb5-1.10.4 release is:

        http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.10/

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 krb5-1.10.4 (2013-03-01)
=========================================

This is a bugfix release.

* Fix null PKINIT pointer dereference vulnerabilities [CVE-2012-1016,
  CVE-2013-1415]

* Prevent the KDC from returning a host-based service principal
  referral to the local realm.
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