- Description
- 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 attackers 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Deferred
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.3
- Impact score
- 2.9
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-189
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
- Red HatNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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