Resource Management Errors Affecting kerberos package, versions [,1.8.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
8.05% (95th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-3006845
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Apr 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Apr 2010

CVE-2010-1320  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kerberos to version 1.8.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. Double free vulnerability in do_tgs_req.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7.x and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request associated with (1) renewal or (2) validation.

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