Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting krb5-devel package, versions <0:1.18.2-8.el8
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE8-KRB5DEVEL-2584465
- published 10 Apr 2022
- disclosed 6 Nov 2020
Introduced: 6 Nov 2020
CVE-2020-28196 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Oracle:8
krb5-devel
to version 0:1.18.2-8.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2021-1593
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream krb5-devel
package and not the krb5-devel
package as distributed by Oracle:8
.
See How to fix?
for Oracle:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.17.2 and 1.18.x before 1.18.3 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.