CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1296

7.2 HIGH Published 1997-04-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1997-04-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Buffer overflow in Kerberos IV compatibility libraries as used in Kerberos V allows local users to gain root privileges via a long line in a kerberos configuration file, which can be specified via the KRB_CONF environmental variable.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 1.5.2

References