4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2009-0847

Published: 09/04/2009 Updated: 10/10/2018
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.

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mit kerberos 5-1.6.3

Vendor Advisories

Multiple flaws were discovered in the Kerberos GSS-API and ASN1 routines that did not correctly handle certain requests An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to crash services using the Kerberos library, leading to a denial of service ...
Several vulnerabilities have been found in the MIT reference implementation of Kerberos V5, a system for authenticating users and services on a network The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identified the following problems: CVE-2009-0844 The Apple Product Security team discovered that the SPNEGO GSS-API mechanism suffers of a missing ...

References

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