Description
Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Published: 2022-11-15
Score: 5.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3206-1 heimdal security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5287-1 heimdal security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-45046 Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-5766-1 Heimdal vulnerability
History

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:15:00 +0000

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Debian Debian Linux
Heimdal Project Heimdal
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2025-04-23T16:37:26.786Z

Reserved: 2022-09-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-41916

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Updated: 2024-08-03T12:56:38.394Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-15T23:15:27.197

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:24:03.720

Link: CVE-2022-41916

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