vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-5729

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 6, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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