Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
10
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Buffer overflow in BSD-based telnetd telnet daemon on various operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a set of options including AYT (Are You There), which is not properly handled by the telrcv function.

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
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

Multiple buffer overflows in krb5anametolocalname for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.3.3 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root.

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

The asn1decodegeneraltime function in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1decode.c in the ASN.1 GeneralizedTime decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an invalid DER encoding that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer.

First published (updated )
Severity
9.8
Buffer Overflow, Double Free
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Double free vulnerabilities in error handling code in krb524d for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.8 and earlier may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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
7.5
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Buffer overflow in ssh 1.2.26 client with Kerberos V enabled could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands via a long DNS hostname that is not properly handled during TGT ticket passing.

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

Certain weaknesses in the implementation of version 4 of the Kerberos protocol (krb4) in the krb5 distribution, when triple-DES keys are used to key krb4 services, allow an attacker to create krb4 tickets for unauthorized principals using a cut-and-paste attack and "ticket splicing."

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

Version 4 of the Kerberos protocol (krb4), as used in Heimdal and other packages, allows an attacker to impersonate any principal in a realm via a chosen-plaintext attack.

First published (updated )
Severity
7.5
Integer Overflow
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->nkeydata" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.

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
6.8
Null Pointer Dereference
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

The processtgsreq function in dotgsreq.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 through 1.9.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted TGS request that triggers an error other than the KRB5KDBNOENTRY error.

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
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.

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

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdbldap/ldapprincipal2.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a modified kadmin client.

First published (updated )
Severity
5.9
EPSS
0.01%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

A vulnerability in the MIT Kerberos implementation allows GSSAPI-protected messages using RC4-HMAC-MD5 to be spoofed due to weaknesses in the MD5 checksum design. If RC4 is preferred over stronger encryption types, an attacker could exploit MD5 collisions to forge message integrity codes. This may lead to unauthorized message tampering.

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Source: NVD
First published (updated )
Severity
5.8
Buffer Overflow
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

The getinputtoken function in the SPNEGO implementation in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly obtain sensitive information via a crafted length value that triggers a buffer over-read.

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

Buffer overflow in Kerberos 4 KDC program allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the emsg variable in the kerberrreply function.

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

Kerberos 4 KDC program does not properly check for null termination of AUTHMSGKDCREQUEST requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed request.

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

Buffer overflow in Kerberos 4 KDC program allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the localrealm variable in the processv4 function.

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

Buffer overflow in Kerberos 4 KDC program allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via the lastrealm variable in the settgtkey function.

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

Kerberos 4 KDC program improperly frees memory twice (aka "double-free"), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service.

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
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
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
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
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The asn1bufimbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.

First published (updated )

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