Off-by-one Error The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package heimdal (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published23 Apr 2025
- disclosed15 Nov 2022
Introduced: 15 Nov 2022
CVE-2022-41916 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream heimdal package and not the heimdal package as distributed by Ubuntu.
Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2022-41916
- https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/security/advisories/GHSA-mgqr-gvh6-23cx
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00034.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-06
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0008/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5287