NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting krb5 package, versions <1.15.3-r0


Severity

0.0
medium
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.16% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE310-KRB5-454657
  • published 16 Jan 2018
  • disclosed 16 Jan 2018

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.10 krb5 to version 1.15.3-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream krb5 package and not the krb5 package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

6.5 medium