CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-41916

Off-by-one Error

Published: Nov 15, 2022 | Modified: Oct 08, 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
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Heimdal Heimdal_project * 7.7.1 (excluding)
Heimdal Ubuntu bionic *
Heimdal Ubuntu devel *
Heimdal Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Heimdal Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
Heimdal Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Heimdal Ubuntu focal *
Heimdal Ubuntu jammy *
Heimdal Ubuntu kinetic *
Heimdal Ubuntu lunar *
Heimdal Ubuntu mantic *
Heimdal Ubuntu noble *
Heimdal Ubuntu oracular *
Heimdal Ubuntu trusty *
Heimdal Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Heimdal Ubuntu upstream *
Heimdal Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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