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CVE-2009-0847

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-04-09 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.

Affected Platforms

Mit Kerberos

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References