Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in knc (Kerberised NetCat)

Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in knc (Kerberised NetCat)

CVE-2017-9732 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The read_packet function in knc (Kerberised NetCat) before 1.11-1 is vulnerable to denial of service (memory exhaustion) that can be exploited remotely without authentication, possibly affecting another services running on the targeted host.

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