CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8630
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-02-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.
Affected configurations
• mit kerberos 5 1.12
• mit kerberos 5 1.12.1
• mit kerberos 5 1.12.2
• mit kerberos 5 1.12.3
• mit kerberos 5 1.12.4
• mit kerberos 5 1.12.5
• mit kerberos 5 1.13
• mit kerberos 5 1.13.1
• mit kerberos 5 1.13.2
• mit kerberos 5 1.13.3
• mit kerberos 5 1.14
References
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8342 krbdev.mit.edu
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00059.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00110.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0532.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3466 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034915 www.securitytracker.com
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/b863de7fbf080b15e347a736fdda0a82d42f4f6b Patch
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8342 krbdev.mit.edu
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00059.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00110.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0532.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3466 www.debian.org
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html www.oracle.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034915 www.securitytracker.com
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/b863de7fbf080b15e347a736fdda0a82d42f4f6b Patch