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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-5354: krb5 kadmin NULL pointer dereference issues

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2014-5354: krb5 kadmin NULL pointer dereference issues

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/16/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2017
Modified
09/22/2017

Description

plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, when the KDC uses LDAP, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by creating a database entry for a keyless principal, as demonstrated by a kadmin "add_principal -nokey" or "purgekeys -all" command.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-krb5

References

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