CVE-2018-5710: An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in…

PriorityP429medium6.5CVSS 3.0

AVNACLPRLUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.80%

75.7th percentile

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a modified kadmin client.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	krb5	< krb5 1.16.1-1 (bookworm)	krb5 1.16.1-1 (bookworm)
mit	kerberos	<= 5-1.16	—
mit	krb5	>= 0 < 1.16.1-1	1.16.1-1
mit	krb5	>= 0 < 1.16.1-1	1.16.1-1
mit	krb5	>= 0 < 1.16.1-1	1.16.1-1
mit	krb5	>= 0 < 1.16.1-1	1.16.1-1

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.06.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv6.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian6.5MEDIUM

vendor_redhat6.5MEDIUM

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