Access of Uninitialized Pointer Affecting krb5-client package, versions <1.16.3-150100.3.30.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES152-KRB5CLIENT-5875816
  • published30 Aug 2023
  • disclosed24 Aug 2023

Introduced: 24 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-36054  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-824  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.2 krb5-client to version 1.16.3-150100.3.30.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream krb5-client package and not the krb5-client package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.2 relevant fixed versions and status.

lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.20.2 and 1.21.x before 1.21.1 frees an uninitialized pointer. A remote authenticated user can trigger a kadmind crash. This occurs because _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec does not validate the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1