Description
In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can cause invalid memory reads during GSS message token handling by sending message tokens with invalid length fields.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- none
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-OtherCWE-125
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- MIT
- Published
- 6/28/2024
- Last Modified
- 11/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
mit : kerberos_5debian : debian_linuxdebian : debian_linux
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