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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-5710): krb5 vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-5710): krb5 vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/16/2018
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/19/2024

Description

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a modified kadmin client.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-krb5

References

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