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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-0847: MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2009-0847: MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/08/2009
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
05/09/2019

Description

The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-crypt-mit-krb5

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