CVE-2016-3120

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-3120
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3120.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3120
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-08-01T02:59:12Z
Modified
2025-10-15T04:33:57Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The validateasrequest function in kdcutil.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.6 and 1.4.x before 1.14.3, when restrictanonymoustotgt is enabled, uses an incorrect client data structure, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an S4U2Self request.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/krb5/krb5

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/krb5/krb5
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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