Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting kerberos package, versions [,1.13.4)[1.14.0, 1.14.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.95% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-3006814
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Feb 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Feb 2016

CVE-2015-8630  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kerberos to version 1.13.4, 1.14.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.

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CVSS Base Scores

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