CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-0628
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-03-25
- 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
Description
The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in the SPNEGO GSS-API functionality in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2 and 1.8 before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid packet that triggers incorrect preparation of an error token.
Affected configurations
• mit kerberos 5 1.7
• mit kerberos 5 1.7.1
• mit kerberos 5 1.8
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39023 secunia.com
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-002.txt web.mit.edu
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/839413 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510281/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38904 Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-916-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566258 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39023 secunia.com
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-002.txt web.mit.edu
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/839413 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510281/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38904 Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-916-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566258 bugzilla.redhat.com