CVE-2021-37750 (GCVE-0-2021-37750)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-23 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:30
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.18.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.3 has a NULL pointer dereference in kdc/do_tgs_req.c via a FAST inner body that lacks a server field.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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