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.
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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2018-17479 | 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. |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-05T05:40:51.143Z
Reserved: 2018-01-16T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2018-5710
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Status : Modified
Published: 2018-01-16T09:29:00.530
Modified: 2024-11-21T04:09:13.177
Link: CVE-2018-5710
OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD