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CVE-2018-5709
published 2018-01-16

CVE-2018-5709: An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data…

PriorityP340high7.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNIHAN
EPSS
2.07%
79.0th percentile
An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiankrb5
mitkerberos<= 5-1.16

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_debian7.5LOW
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
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