PT-2016-3939

CVE-2015-8629

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Published

2016-02-04

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Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1
5.3
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) versions prior to 1.13.4 MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) versions 1.14.x prior to 1.14.1
Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service due to an out-of-bounds read. This is caused by the xdr nullstring function in lib/kadm5/kadm rpc xdr.c in kadmind not verifying whether '0' characters exist as expected, allowing exploitation via a crafted string.
Recommendations For versions prior to 1.13.4, update to version 1.13.4 or later. For versions 1.14.x prior to 1.14.1, update to version 1.14.1 or later.
Exploitability
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2016-1392
CESA-2016_0493
CESA-2016_0532
DLA-423-1
DSA-3466-1
MGASA-2016-0052
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10004-1
RHSA-2016:0493
RHSA-2016_0493
RHSA-2016:0532
RHSA-2016_0532
SUSE-SU-2016:0429-1
SUSE-SU-2016_0429-1
SUSE-SU-2016:0430-1
SUSE-SU-2016_0430-1
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