Denial of Service Vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5

CVE-2015-2697 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The build_principal_va function in lib/krb5/krb/bld_princ.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.14 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and KDC crash) via an initial '\0' character in a long realm field within a TGS request.

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