CVE-2018-5710
MEDIUM6.5EPSS 0.39%Published: 1/16/2018Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2018-5710DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5710
Description
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 packages (2)
- Alpine/krb5from 0, < 1.15.3-r0
- Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.16.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |