CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-1016
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2013-03-05
- 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-476
Description
The pkinit_server_return_padata function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_srv.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.10.4 attempts to find an agility KDF identifier in inappropriate circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted Draft 9 request.
Affected configurations
• mit kerberos 5 (< 1.10.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7527 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55040 Third Party Advisory
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.10/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/db64ca25d661a47b996b4e2645998b5d7f0eb52c Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7527 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55040 Third Party Advisory
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.10/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/db64ca25d661a47b996b4e2645998b5d7f0eb52c Patch, Third Party Advisory