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CVE-2013-1415 (GCVE-0-2013-1415)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-03-03 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 14:57
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Summary
The pkinit_check_kdc_pkid function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.10.4 and 1.11.x before 1.11.1 does not properly handle errors during extraction of fields from an X.509 certificate, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed KRB5_PADATA_PK_AS_REQ AS-REQ request.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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Date Public
2013-02-21 00:00
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