NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting krb5 package, versions <1.16.1-1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.33% (72nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-KRB5-514564
- published 6 Mar 2018
- disclosed 6 Mar 2018
Introduced: 6 Mar 2018
CVE-2018-5729 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:11
krb5
to version 1.16.1-1 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:11
relevant fixed versions and status.
MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or bypass a DN container check by supplying tagged data that is internal to the database module.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-5729
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891869
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/01/msg00020.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GK5T6JPMBHBPKS7HNGHYUUF4KKRMNSNU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIFUL3CPM4S5TOXTTOCQ3CUZN6XCXUTR/
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e1caf6fb74981da62039846931ebdffed71309d1
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/09/msg00019.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0327
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1551083
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3071
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042071
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-5729
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GK5T6JPMBHBPKS7HNGHYUUF4KKRMNSNU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OIFUL3CPM4S5TOXTTOCQ3CUZN6XCXUTR/
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