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CVE-2010-0628 (GCVE-0-2010-0628)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-03-25 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 00:52
VLAI
Summary
The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in the SPNEGO GSS-API functionality in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2 and 1.8 before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid packet that triggers incorrect preparation of an error token.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-916-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510281/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38904 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566258 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/39023 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/839413 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
Date Public
2010-03-23 00:00
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