DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28196

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-28196
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28196.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28196
Upstream
Published
2020-11-06T08:15:13Z
Modified
2025-09-25T22:40:39Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.17.2 and 1.18.x before 1.18.3 allows unbounded recursion via an ASN.1-encoded Kerberos message because the lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_encode.c support for BER indefinite lengths lacks a recursion limit.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / krb5

Package

Name
krb5
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/krb5?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.18.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / krb5

Package

Name
krb5
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/krb5?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.18.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:13 / krb5

Package

Name
krb5
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/krb5?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.18.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:14 / krb5

Package

Name
krb5
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/krb5?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.18.3-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}