CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8630

Published: Feb 13, 2016 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
2.1 LOW
AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Kerberos_5Mit1.12 (including)1.12 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.12.1 (including)1.12.1 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.12.2 (including)1.12.2 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.12.3 (including)1.12.3 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.12.4 (including)1.12.4 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.12.5 (including)1.12.5 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.13 (including)1.13 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.13.1 (including)1.13.1 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.13.2 (including)1.13.2 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.13.3 (including)1.13.3 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.14 (including)1.14 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.14-alpha1 (including)1.14-alpha1 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.14-beta1 (including)1.14-beta1 (including)
Kerberos_5Mit1.14-beta2 (including)1.14-beta2 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatkrb5-0:1.13.2-12.el7_2*
Krb5Ubuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
Krb5Ubuntutrusty*
Krb5Ubuntutrusty/esm*
Krb5Ubuntuupstream*
Krb5Ubuntuvivid*
Krb5Ubuntuvivid/stable-phone-overlay*
Krb5Ubuntuvivid/ubuntu-core*
Krb5Ubuntuwily*

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