CVE-2000-0549

N/A
Published: October 13, 2000 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:51 PM UTC
4 products affected across 2 vendorsKerberos 5KerberosCygnus Network Security

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%

Description

Kerberos 4 KDC program does not properly check for null termination of AUTH_MSG_KDC_REQUEST requests, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed request.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

References (5)

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploitPatchVendor Advisory
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-06/0064.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resourcex_refsource_CIAC
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/k-051.shtml
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERTPatchUS Government Resource
http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-11.html

CVSS

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other

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