CVE-2009-0845
N/A
Published: March 27, 2009 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorKerberos 5Kerberos
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 6%
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.
Remediation
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References (44)
x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?user=guest&pass=guest&id=6402Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/34347Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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