CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-0847

Published: Apr 09, 2009 | Modified: Oct 10, 2018
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
7.8 IMPORTANT
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kerberos Mit 5-1.6.3 (including) 5-1.6.3 (including)
Krb5 Ubuntu devel *
Krb5 Ubuntu gutsy *
Krb5 Ubuntu hardy *
Krb5 Ubuntu intrepid *
Krb5 Ubuntu upstream *

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