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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-5729): krb5 vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 6, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

Description

MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or bypass a DN container check by supplying tagged data that is internal to the database module.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-krb5
Title
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