MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.3 through 1.4.1 Key Distribution Center (KDC) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application…

Description

MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.3 through 1.4.1 Key Distribution Center (KDC) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain valid TCP connection that causes a free of unallocated memory.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.2% · top 7.5% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (23)

• 20364 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• RHSA-2005:567 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2005:017 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• kerberos-kdc-krb5-tcp-connection-dos(21327) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• VU#259798 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• 20050712 MITKRB5-SA-2005-002: buffer overflow, heap corruption in KDC (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 1014460 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• ADV-2006-2074 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:397 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• 101809 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
• http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2005-002-patch_1.4.1.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• TLSA-2005-78 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TURBOx_transferred
• IY85474 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_AIXAPARx_transferred
• 14240 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 16041 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• USN-224-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• DSA-757 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2005-08-15 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10229 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• 17899 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2005-1066 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• APPLE-SA-2005-08-17 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
• 2005-0036 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 21:44 UTC.