Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
7.5
Integer Underflow
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22.3, there is an integer underflow and resultant out-of-bounds read if an application calls gssacceptseccontext() on a system with a NegoEx mechanism registered in /etc/gss/mech. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this, possibly causing the process to terminate in parsemessage.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22.3, there is a NULL pointer dereference if an application calls gssacceptseccontext() on a system with a NegoEx mechanism registered in /etc/gss/mech. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this, causing the process to terminate in parsenegomessage.

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Source: Microsoft
First published (updated )
Severity
4

In MIT krb5 release 1.7 and later with incremental propagation enabled, an authenticated attacker can cause kadmind to write beyond the end of the mapped region for the iprop log file, likely causing a process crash.

First published (updated )
Severity
4

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can modify the plaintext Extra Count field of a confidential GSS krb5 wrap token, causing the unwrapped token to appear truncated to the application.

Reference and upstream patch: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/55fbf435edbe2e92dd8101669b1ce7144bc96fef

First published (updated )
Severity
4

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can cause invalid memory reads during GSS message token handling by sending message tokens with invalid length fields.

Reference and upstream patch: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/55fbf435edbe2e92dd8101669b1ce7144bc96fef

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can modify the plaintext Extra Count field of a confidential GSS krb5 wrap token, causing the unwrapped token to appear truncated to the application.

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Source: Debian
First published (updated )
Severity
9.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can cause invalid memory reads during GSS message token handling by sending message tokens with invalid length fields.

1 / 4
Source: Debian
First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
EPSS
0.04%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak vulnerability in /krb5/src/lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
5.3
EPSS
0.04%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak in /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmaprmt.c.

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Source: MITRE
First published (updated )
Severity
8.8
EPSS
0.10%
Double Free
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

kdc/dotgsreq.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21 before 1.21.2 has a double free that is reachable if an authenticated user can trigger an authorization-data handling failure. Incorrect data is copied from one ticket to another.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

telnetd in GNU Inetutils through 2.3, MIT krb5-appl through 1.0.3, and derivative works has a NULL pointer dereference via 0xff 0xf7 or 0xff 0xf8. In a typical installation, the telnetd application would crash but the telnet service would remain available through inetd. However, if the telnetd application has many crashes within a short time interval, the telnet service would become unavailable after inetd logs a "telnet/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated" error. NOTE: MIT krb5-appl is not supported upstream but is shipped by a few Linux distributions. The affected code was removed from the supported MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) product many years ago, at version 1.8.

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First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.18.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.3 has a NULL pointer dereference in kdc/dotgsreq.c via a FAST inner body that lacks a server field.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A flaw was found in krb5. MIT Kerberos 5 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.

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Severity
3.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

A flaw was found in MIT krb5 1.6 or later, an authenticated kadmin user with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database can circumvent a DN containership check by supplying both a "linkdn" and "containerdn" database argument, or by supplying a DN string which is a left extension of a container DN string but is not hierarchically within the container DN.

Reference: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891869

Upstream patch: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4.7
Null Pointer Dereference
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

A flaw was found in MIT krb5 1.6 or later, an authenticated kadmin user with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database can cause a null dereference in kadmind, or circumvent a DN container check, by supplying tagged data intended to be internal to the database module.

Reference: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891869

Upstream patch: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

A flaw was found in krb5 certificate EKU validation which could lead to improper authorization if a forged certificate with the right EKU and no SAN is used.

The PKINIT certauth eku module should never authoritatively authorize a certificate, because an extended key usage does not establish a relationship between the certificate and any specific user; it only establishes that the certificate was created for PKINIT client authentication.

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/50fe4074f188c2d4da0c421e96553acea8378db2 https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/1de6ca2f2eb1fdbab51f1549a25a6903aefcc196 https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/b7af544e50a4d8291524f590e20dd44430bf627d

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in getmatchingdata() function when both the CA cert and the user cert have a long subject affecting krb5 that includes certauth plugin. Attack requires a validated certificate with a long subject and issuer, and a "pkinitcertmatch" string attribute on some principal in the database. A remote code execution exploit might also require that the attacker gets to choose the contents of the issuer in the validated cert.

Bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871698

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Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
4

It was found that in MIT krb5 1.7 and later, an authenticated attacker can cause an assertion failure in krb5kdc by sending an invalid S4U2Self or S4U2Proxy request.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/678/commits/ffb35baac698

First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 and later, an authenticated attacker can cause a KDC assertion failure by sending invalid S4U2Self or S4U2Proxy requests.

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
6.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C

The checkrpcsecauth function in kadmin/server/kadmrpcsvc.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 allows remote authenticated users to bypass a kadmin/ authorization check and obtain administrative access by leveraging access to a two-component principal with an initial "kadmind" substring, as demonstrated by a "ka/x" principal.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Infoleak
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The svcauthgssacceptseccontext function in lib/rpc/svcauthgss.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11.x through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 transmits uninitialized interposer data to clients, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory by sniffing the network for data in a handle field.

First published (updated )
Severity
9
Use After Free, Double Free
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

The authgssapiunwrapdata function in lib/rpc/authgssapimisc.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 does not properly handle partial XDR deserialization, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and double free, and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed XDR data, as demonstrated by data sent to kadmind.

First published (updated )
Severity
8.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Off-by-one error in the krb5encodekrbsecretkey function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdbldap/ldapprincipal2.c in the LDAP KDB module in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.x through 1.11.x before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a series of "cpw -keepold" commands.

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the MIT Kerberos SPNEGO acceptor for continuation tokens. An unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the server acceptor.

It is reported that this issue affects version 1.5 and later.

Upstream commit and further details:

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/524688ce87a15fc75f87efc8c039ba4c7d5c197b

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
7.6
Double Free
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

A double-free flaw was found in the MIT Kerberos SPNEGO initiators. An attacker able to spoof packets to appear as though they are from an GSSAPI acceptor could use this flaw to crash a client application that uses MIT Kerberos.

It is reported that this issue affects version 1.10 and later.

Upstream commit and further details:

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/f18ddf5d82de0ab7591a36e465bc24225776940f

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session.

First published (updated )
Severity
5
Buffer Overflow, Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read or NULL pointer dereference, and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session.

First published (updated )
Severity
4
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

An unspecified third-party database module for the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10.x allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-1418.

First published (updated )
Severity
3.5
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

dotgsreq.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11 before 1.11.4, when a single-component realm name is used, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a TGS-REQ request that triggers an attempted cross-realm referral for a host-based service principal.

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
4.3
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

It was reported [1] that if a KDC serves multiple realms, certain requests could cause the setupserverrealm() funtion to dereference a null pointer, resulting in a crash of the KDC (Key Distribution Center). This can be triggered by an unauthenticated user.

This has been correct in git [2].

[1] http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krb5-bugs/2013-November/010206.html [2] https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/5d2d9a1abe46a2c1a8614d4672d08d9d30a5f8bf

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