Description
Multiple integer underflows in the (1) AES and (2) RC4 decryption functionality in the crypto library in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.3 through 1.6.3, and 1.7 before 1.7.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by providing ciphertext with a length that is too short to be valid.
Published: 2010-01-13
Score: 10.0 Critical
EPSS: 16.5% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1969-1 New krb5 packages fix denial of service
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-881-1 Kerberos vulnerability
References
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http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033915.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033919.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38080 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38108 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38126 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38140 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38184 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38203 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/38696 cve-icon cve-icon
http://secunia.com/advisories/40220 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-275530-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-77-1021779.1-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188 cve-icon cve-icon
http://support.avaya.com/css/P8/documents/100074869 cve-icon cve-icon
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-881-1 cve-icon cve-icon
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2009-004.txt cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1969 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2010:006 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37749 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023440 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0096 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0129 cve-icon cve-icon
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481 cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=545015 cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-4212 cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11272 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7357 cve-icon cve-icon
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8192 cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0029.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0095.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2009-4212 cve-icon
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Mit Kerberos Kerberos 5
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Eus
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:54:10.078Z

Reserved: 2009-12-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-4212

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-01-13T19:30:00.607

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-4212

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2010-01-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-4212 - Bugzilla

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