CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1014

9.0 HIGH Published 2012-08-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2012-08-06
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

Description

The process_as_req function in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10.x before 1.10.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed AS-REQ request.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 1.10 • mit kerberos 5 1.10.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.10.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00016.html lists.opensuse.org
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2012-001.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2518 www.debian.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00016.html lists.opensuse.org
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2012-001.txt Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2518 www.debian.org