Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting kerberos package, versions [,1.7.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
40.34% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-3006797
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Dec 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Dec 2009

CVE-2009-3295  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kerberos to version 1.7.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The prep_reprocess_req function in kdc/do_tgs_req.c in the cross-realm referral implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a ticket request.

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