Out-of-Bounds Affecting krb5 package, versions <1.3-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    31.01% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-KRB5-395973
  • published 19 Mar 2008
  • disclosed 19 Mar 2008

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 krb5 to version 1.3-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Buffer overflow in the RPC library (lib/rpc/rpc_dtablesize.c) used by libgssrpc and kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2, and probably other versions before 1.3, when running on systems whose unistd.h does not define the FD_SETSIZE macro, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by triggering a large number of open file descriptors.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

8.8 high