CVE-2013-1415

Medium

Description

The pkinit_check_kdc_pkid function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.10.4 and 1.11.x before 1.11.1 does not properly handle errors during extraction of fields from an X.509 certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed KRB5_PADATA_PK_AS_REQ AS-REQ request.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductMit Kerberos
PublishedMar 5, 2013
First seenMar 5, 2013

How to fix

Update
  • mit kerberos_51.10.4 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mit kerberos_5v < 1.10.4, 1.111.10.4
opensuse opensuse11.4—

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CVE-2013-1415 · Mit Kerberos · Dark Radar