Denial of Service Vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 ASN.1 Decoder Library

Denial of Service Vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 ASN.1 Decoder Library

CVE-2004-0644 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The asn1buf_skiptail function in the ASN.1 decoder library for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2 through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain BER encoding.

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