CVE-2012-1014
EPSS 4.2%krb5 - denial of service
Published: 8/6/2012Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The process_as_req function in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10.x before 1.10.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed AS-REQ request.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.10.1+dfsg-2
- Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze6