CVE-2015-8631 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime in Kerberos 5

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective LifetimeCWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime8 documents7 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.2%
top 15.52%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
12
MIT Krb5MIT Kerberos 5Debian Linux+9 more
Timeline
PublishedFeb 13
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a request specifying a NULL principal name.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages8 packages

▶NVDmit/kerberos_51.14 — 1.14.1+1
▶Debianmit/krb5< 1.13.2+dfsg-5+3
▶NVDoracle/linux6, 7+1
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.1

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, Enterprise Linux 6.7, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-7f2w-w6q2-vgj3: Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs↗2022-05-13
▶
OSV
CVE-2015-8631: Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs↗2016-02-13
▶
CVEList
CVE-2015-8631: Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs↗2016-02-13
▶

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
krb5: Memory leak caused by supplying a null principal name in request↗2016-01-08
▶
Debian
CVE-2015-8631: krb5 - Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos...↗2015
▶

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8631 krb5: Memory leak caused by supplying a null principal name in request↗2016-01-28
▶
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8631 krb5: Memory leak caused by supplying a null principal name in request [fedora-all]↗2016-01-28
▶
CVE-2015-8631 — MIT Kerberos 5 vulnerability | cvebase