CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-5710

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2018-01-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a modified kadmin client.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos (<= 5-1.16)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References