CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-2443

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2013-05-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-05-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

schpw.c in the kpasswd service in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.11.3 does not properly validate UDP packets before sending responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged packet that triggers a communication loop, as demonstrated by krb_pingpong.nasl, a related issue to CVE-1999-0103.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 (< 1.11.3) • opensuse opensuse 11.4 • opensuse opensuse 12.2 • opensuse opensuse 12.3 • fedoraproject fedora 17 • fedoraproject fedora 18 • fedoraproject fedora 19 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux eus 5.9 • redhat enterprise linux eus 6.4 • redhat enterprise linux server 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 6.4 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • debian debian linux 6.0 • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 15.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References