Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- MIT
- Published
- 2/13/2016
- Last Modified
- 4/12/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5mit : kerberos_5
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