CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-14844

Function Call with Incorrectly Specified Arguments

Published: Sep 26, 2019 | Modified: Feb 12, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/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
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A flaw was found in, Fedora versions of krb5 from 1.16.1 to, including 1.17.x, in the way a Kerberos client could crash the KDC by sending one of the RFC 4556 enctypes. A remote unauthenticated user could use this flaw to crash the KDC.

Weakness

The product calls a function, procedure, or routine with arguments that are not correctly specified, leading to always-incorrect behavior and resultant weaknesses.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Kerberos_5 Mit 1.16.1 (including) 1.17.1 (including)
Krb5 Ubuntu trusty *

Extended Description

There are multiple ways in which this weakness can be introduced, including:

Potential Mitigations

References