CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-0281

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2011-02-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-02-10
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-310

Description

The unparse implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.x through 1.9, when an LDAP backend is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion and daemon hang) via a principal name that triggers use of a backslash escape sequence, as demonstrated by a \n sequence.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5-1.6.3 • mit kerberos 5 1.6 • mit kerberos 5 1.6.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.6.2 • mit kerberos 5 1.7 • mit kerberos 5 1.7.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.8 • mit kerberos 5 1.8.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.8.2 • mit kerberos 5 1.8.3 • mit kerberos 5 1.9

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References