Lucene search

K
veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:12019
HistoryJan 15, 2019 - 9:11 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS)

2019-01-1509:11:07
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
14

EPSS

0.007

Percentile

80.8%

krb5 is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerability exists as the xdr_nullstring function in lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 does not verify whether ‘\0’ characters exist as expected, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted string.