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CVE-2022-41916

Off-by-one Error

Published: Nov 15, 2022 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
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-2022-41916
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/193.html

Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdals PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdals libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Weakness

A product calculates or uses an incorrect maximum or minimum value that is 1 more, or 1 less, than the correct value.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
HeimdalHeimdal_project*7.7.1 (excluding)
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*

Potential Mitigations

References

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