CVE-2018-5710

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductMit Kerberos
PublishedJan 16, 2018
First seenJan 16, 2018

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
mit kerberosv ≤ 5-1.16—

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