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Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package krb5  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1610-KRB5-668169
  • published13 Feb 2016
  • disclosed13 Feb 2016
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Introduced: 13 Feb 2016

CVE-2015-8631  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream krb5 package and not the krb5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a request specifying a NULL principal name.