CVE-2015-8630

CVE Details

Release Date:	2016-01-08
Impact:	Low	What is this?

Description

The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principalfunctions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.

See more information about CVE-2015-8630 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

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

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	2.1
Vector String:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Network
Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 7 (krb5)	ELSA-2016-0532	2016-03-31