CVE-2009-0847
N/A
Published: April 9, 2009 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:05 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorKerberos
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (38)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_HP
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124896429301168&w=2Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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