Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting krb5 package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-KRB5-395953
  • published16 Jan 2018
  • disclosed16 Jan 2018

Introduced: 16 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-5709  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:8 krb5.

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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" 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.