CVE-2009-4212
N/A
Published: January 13, 2010 at 07:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:13 PM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorKerberos 5Kerberos
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 8%
Description
Multiple integer underflows in the (1) AES and (2) RC4 decryption functionality in the crypto library in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.3 through 1.6.3, and 1.7 before 1.7.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by providing ciphertext with a length that is too short to be valid.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033915.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033919.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-275530-1
References (31)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033915.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/033919.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_HP
Source: [email protected]
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-189
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