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CVE-2026-112318

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2026-11-09 Modified: 2026-11-09

Description

The policy RPC stubs in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5.3 and later do not reject a NULL policy name decoded by xdr_nullstring(), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (kadmind crash via NULL pointer dereference) by sending a policy request with an empty policy name that reaches authorization checks or logging code.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-476

References