Denial of Service Vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 Key Distribution Center (KDC)

Denial of Service Vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 Key Distribution Center (KDC)

CVE-2011-0283 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed request packet that does not trigger a response packet.

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