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CVE-2009-0845

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2009-03-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.3, when SPNEGO is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via invalid ContextFlags data in the reqFlags field in a negTokenInit token.

Affected Platforms

Mit KerberosMit Kerberos 5

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References