CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-0847

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2009-04-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-04-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-189

Description

The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5-1.6.3

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References