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CVE-2018-5729 (GCVE-0-2018-5729)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-03-06 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 05:40
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Summary
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.
Severity
4.7 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-03-01 00:00
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      "cve": "CVE-2018-5729",
      "id": "CVE-2018-5729",
      "initial_release_date": "2018-03-01T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "117",
      "product_status:known_affected": "12",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "8",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
      "title": "krb5: null dereference in kadmind or DN container check bypass by supplying special crafted data",
      "url": "https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2018/cve-2018-5729.json",
      "version": "3"
    }
  }
}



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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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