NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting krb5-appl-servers package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.11% (81st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-KRB5APPLSERVERS-3022246
  • published13 Sept 2022
  • disclosed30 Aug 2022

Introduced: 30 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-39028  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:6 krb5-appl-servers.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream krb5-appl-servers package and not the krb5-appl-servers package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

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