Memory Leak Affecting kerberos package, versions [,1.13.4)[1.14,1.14.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.79% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-3006853
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Feb 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Feb 2016

CVE-2015-8631  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (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 Memory Leak. Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a request specifying a NULL principal name.

CVSS Scores

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