CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9732
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-12-20
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The read_packet function in knc (Kerberised NetCat) before 1.11-1 is vulnerable to denial of service (memory exhaustion) that can be exploited remotely without authentication, possibly affecting another services running on the targeted host.
Affected configurations
• secure-endpoints kerberised netcat (< 1.11-1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150534/knc-Kerberized-NetCat-Denial-Of-Service.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/65 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/elric1/knc/commit/f237f3e09ecbaf59c897f5046538a7b1a3fa40c1 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/irsl/knc-memory-exhaustion/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150534/knc-Kerberized-NetCat-Denial-Of-Service.html Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Nov/65 Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/elric1/knc/commit/f237f3e09ecbaf59c897f5046538a7b1a3fa40c1 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/irsl/knc-memory-exhaustion/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory