The pkinit_check_kdc_pkid function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.10.4 and 1.11.x before 1.11.1 does not properly handle errors during extraction of fields from an X.509 certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed KRB5_PADATA_PK_AS_REQ AS-REQ request.
A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerberos_5 | Mit | * | 1.10.4 (excluding) |
| Kerberos_5 | Mit | 1.11 (including) | 1.11 (including) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | RedHat | krb5-0:1.10.3-10.el6_4.1 | * |
| Krb5 | Ubuntu | hardy | * |
| Krb5 | Ubuntu | lucid | * |
| Krb5 | Ubuntu | oneiric | * |
| Krb5 | Ubuntu | precise | * |
| Krb5 | Ubuntu | quantal | * |
| Krb5 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |