krb5: denial of service
| Package(s): | krb5 | CVE #(s): | CVE-2013-1415 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created: | March 11, 2013 | Updated: | March 25, 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Description: | From the CVE entry:
The pkinit_check_kdc_pkid function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.10.4 and 1.11.x before 1.11.1 does not properly handle errors during extraction of fields from an X.509 certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed KRB5_PADATA_PK_AS_REQ AS-REQ request. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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