CVE-2009-0846

CVE Details

Release Date:

2009-04-09

Description

The asn1_decode_generaltime function in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_decode.c in the ASN.1 GeneralizedTime decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an invalid DER encoding that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer.

See more information about CVE-2009-0846 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	10	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (krb5)	ELSA-2009-0409	2009-04-07
Oracle Linux version 5 (krb5)	ELSA-2009-0408	2009-04-07

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