CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-0283

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

Description

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed request packet that does not trigger a response packet.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 1.9

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/43260 Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8073 securityreason.com
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516299/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46272 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025037 www.securitytracker.com
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0330 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/43260 Vendor Advisory
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8073 securityreason.com
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516299/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46272 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025037 www.securitytracker.com
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0330 Vendor Advisory