Article ID: 899587 - Last Review: December 3, 2007 - Revision: 2.4 MS05-042: Vulnerabilities in Kerberos could allow denial of service, information disclosure, and spoofingNote The security update contains some security-related changes to functionality. Besides the changes that are listed in each "Vulnerability Details" section of Security Bulletin MS05-042, the security update includes another change in functionality. An optional, but recommended, registry entry (RequireAsChecksum) has been added to help provide additional protection for potential future PKINIT-related vulnerabilities. PKINIT is an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet Draft for "Public Key Cryptography for Initial Authentication in Kerberos."
For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
904766
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How to modify the RequireAsChecksum registry entry after you install security update 899587
Microsoft has released security bulletin MS05-042. The security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security update. This information includes file manifest information and deployment options. To view the complete security bulletin, visit one of the following Microsoft Web sites:
889100
(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/889100/
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