Out-of-bounds Write Affecting heimdal/heimdal package, versions [,0.6.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.16% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-HEIMDALHEIMDAL-2364878
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Jul 2004
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jul 2004

CVE-2004-0434  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade heimdal/heimdal to version 0.6.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write k5admind (kadmind) for Heimdal allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Kerberos 4 compatibility administration request whose framing length is less than 2, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS Base Scores

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