Denial of Service Vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 KDC

CVE-2011-1530 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The process_tgs_req function in do_tgs_req.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 through 1.9.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted TGS request that triggers an error other than the KRB5_KDB_NOENTRY error.

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