Where
-Infinity
0
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
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.

1 / 2
Source: MITRE
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
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.

1 / 4
Source: Debian
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
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

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
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
5
Input Validation, Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

A null pointer dereference flaw was found in Kerberos's GSS-API spnego security mechanism implemenation. A local user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service (krb5 daemon crash) via invalid ContextFlags for the reqFlags field in the NegTokenInit (RFC 4178).

References: http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?user=guest&pass=guest&id=6402

Upstream patch: http://src.mit.edu/fisheye/changelog/krb5/?cs=22099

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

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.7 and earlier allows remote, authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) on KDCs within the same realm using a certain protocol request that causes the KDC to corrupt its heap (aka "buffer underrun").

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

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.7 and earlier allows remote, authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) on KDCs within the same realm using a certain protocol request that causes an out-of-bounds read of an array (aka "array overrun").

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Format string vulnerabilities in the logging routines for MIT Kerberos V5 Key Distribution Center (KDC) before 1.2.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in Kerberos principal names.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Unknown vulnerability in the chktrans.c of the libkrb5 library for MIT Kerberos V5 before 1.2.5 allows users from one realm to impersonate users in other realms that have the same inter-realm keys.

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

MIT Kerberos V5 Key Distribution Center (KDC) before 1.2.5 allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) on KDCs within the same realm via a certain protocol request that causes a null dereference.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Integer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.

1 / 2
First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in ksu in Kerberos 5 allows local users to gain root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in krshd in Kerberos 5 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in krbrdreq function in Kerberos 4 and 5 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in krb425convprincipal function in Kerberos 5 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
Buffer Overflow
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in Kerberos IV compatibility libraries as used in Kerberos V allows local users to gain root privileges via a long line in a kerberos configuration file, which can be specified via the KRBCONF environmental variable.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.2
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The dtlogin program in Compaq Tru64 UNIX allows local users to gain root privileges.

First published (updated )
Severity
4.6
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Kerberos 4 key servers allow a user to masquerade as another by breaking and generating session keys.

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
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.

1 / 4
First published (updated )
Severity
6.5
Use After Free
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Use-after-free vulnerability in kadmin/server/serverstubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a request from a kadmin client that sends an invalid API version number.

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

A denial of service flaw was found in Kerberos's GSS-API spnego security mechanism implementation. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause gss-server crash via invalid ContextFlags for the reqFlags field in the NegTokenInit in spnegomech.c, which triggers an assertion failure. Similar vulnerability than CVE-2009-0845.

PGP-signed patch from upstream will be available at: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2010-002-patch.txt.asc

1 / 2
Source: Red Hat
First published (updated )
Severity
7.8
Input Validation
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2, and 1.8 alpha, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid (1) AS-REQ or (2) TGS-REQ request.

First published (updated )
Severity
6.8
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

The kgacceptkrb5 function in krb5/acceptseccontext.c in the GSS-API library in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.7.1 and 1.8 before 1.8.2, as used in kadmind and other applications, does not properly check for invalid GSS-API tokens, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an AP-REQ message in which the authenticator's checksum field is missing.

First published (updated )
Severity
4
Double Free
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Double free vulnerability in dotgsreq.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7.x and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request associated with (1) renewal or (2) validation.

First published (updated )

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