CVE-2002-2443

Description

schpw.c in the kpasswd service in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.11.3 does not properly validate UDP packets before sending responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged packet that triggers a communication loop, as demonstrated by krb_pingpong.nasl, a related issue to CVE-1999-0103.

Affected Platforms

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References

• http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7637
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105879.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/105978.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-May/106698.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-07/msg00007.html