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CVE-2022-3116

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 27, 2023 | Modified: Feb 24, 2025
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
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3116
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

The Heimdal Software Kerberos 5 implementation is vulnerable to a null pointer dereferance. An attacker with network access to an application that depends on the vulnerable code path can cause the application to crash.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
HeimdalHeimdal_project*7.7.0 (including)
HeimdalUbuntubionic*
HeimdalUbuntudevel*
HeimdalUbuntuesm-apps/jammy*
HeimdalUbuntuesm-apps/noble*
HeimdalUbuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
HeimdalUbuntuesm-infra/bionic*
HeimdalUbuntuesm-infra/focal*
HeimdalUbuntuesm-infra/xenial*
HeimdalUbuntufocal*
HeimdalUbuntujammy*
HeimdalUbuntukinetic*
HeimdalUbuntulunar*
HeimdalUbuntumantic*
HeimdalUbuntunoble*
HeimdalUbuntuoracular*
HeimdalUbuntuplucky*
HeimdalUbuntuquesting*
HeimdalUbuntutrusty*
HeimdalUbuntutrusty/esm*
HeimdalUbuntuupstream*
HeimdalUbuntuxenial*
SambaUbuntutrusty*
SambaUbuntuxenial*

Potential Mitigations

References

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