vulnerability
Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2017-11462)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Sep 13, 2017 | Jul 11, 2025 | Nov 27, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Sep 13, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025
Description
A double free vulnerability has been discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) allowing attackers to crash the application or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving automatic deletion of security contexts on error.
Solution
arch-linux-upgrade-latest
References
- CVE-2017-11462
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2017-11462
- URL-http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8598
- URL-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1488873
- URL-https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/56f7b1bc95a2a3eeb420e069e7655fb181ade5cf
- URL-https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2FPRUP4YVOEBGEROUYWZFEQ64HTMGNED/
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-8
- URL-https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201710-9
- URL-https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.15/
- CWE-415
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