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CentOS: (CVE-2015-8631) (Multiple Advisories): krb5

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 12, 2016
Added
Jul 6, 2016
Modified
Feb 4, 2021

Description

Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a request specifying a NULL principal name.

Solutions

centos-upgrade-krb5-develcentos-upgrade-krb5-libscentos-upgrade-krb5-pkinitcentos-upgrade-krb5-pkinit-opensslcentos-upgrade-krb5-servercentos-upgrade-krb5-server-ldapcentos-upgrade-krb5-workstation
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