Kerberos 5 LDAP Back End Denial of Service Vulnerability

Kerberos 5 LDAP Back End Denial of Service Vulnerability

CVE-2011-1528 · HIGH Severity

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

The krb5_ldap_lockout_audit function in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.8 through 1.8.4 and 1.9 through 1.9.1, when the LDAP back end is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via unspecified vectors, related to the locked_check_p function. NOTE: the Berkeley DB vector is covered by CVE-2011-4151.

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