CVE-2022-41916 (GCVE-0-2022-41916)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-15 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:37
VLAI
Title
Read one byte past a buffer when normalizing Unicode
Summary
Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:54 UTC
CWE
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7838 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
heimdal heimdal Affected: < 7.7.1
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