Use After Free Affecting kerberos package, versions [1.5-alpha1,1.7-alpha1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
5.47% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-3006846
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Apr 2010
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Apr 2010

CVE-2010-0629  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kerberos to version 1.7-alpha1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a request from a kadmin client that sends an invalid API version number.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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