vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2017-7482: kernel: net/rxrpc: overflow in decoding of krb5 principal

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 30, 2018
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In the Linux kernel before version 4.12, Kerberos 5 tickets decoded when using the RXRPC keys incorrectly assumes the size of a field. This could lead to the size-remaining variable wrapping and the data pointer going over the end of the buffer. This could possibly lead to memory corruption and possible privilege escalation.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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