ALPINE-CVE-2015-8629

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2015-8629
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2015-8629.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2015-8629
Upstream
Published
2016-02-13T02:59:00Z
Modified
2025-09-25T23:50:18.700019Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The xdrnullstring function in lib/kadm5/kadmrpc_xdr.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 does not verify whether '\0' characters exist as expected, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a crafted string.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.4 / krb5

Package

Name
krb5
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/krb5?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.14-r1

Affected versions

1.*

1.11-r0
1.11-r1
1.11-r2
1.11.2-r0
1.11.2-r1
1.11.2-r2
1.11.3-r0
1.11.4-r0
1.12.1-r0
1.12.2-r0
1.13-r0
1.13-r1
1.13.1-r0
1.13.1-r1
1.13.2-r0
1.13.2-r1
1.13.2-r2
1.14-r0