CVE-2015-8630

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 9 years ago

2016-02-13 02:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2020-01-21 15:47:00

Affected Software

Mit Kerberos 5 1.12

1.12

Mit Kerberos 5 1.12.1

1.12.1

Mit Kerberos 5 1.12.2

1.12.2

Mit Kerberos 5 1.12.3

1.12.3

Mit Kerberos 5 1.12.4

1.12.4

Mit Kerberos 5 1.12.5

1.12.5

Mit Kerberos 5 1.13

1.13

Mit Kerberos 5 1.13.1

1.13.1

Mit Kerberos 5 1.13.2

1.13.2

Mit Kerberos 5 1.13.3

1.13.3

MIT Kerberos 5 1.14

1.14

Mit Kerberos 5 1.14 Alpha 1

1.14

Mit Kerberos 5 1.14 Beta 1

1.14

Mit Kerberos 5 1.14 Beta 2

1.14

References

http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8342

openSUSE-SU-2016:0406

openSUSE-SU-2016:0501

RHSA-2016:0532

DSA-3466

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

1034915

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/b863de7fbf080b15e347a736fdda0a82d42f4f6b

Patch

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