CVE-2018-5710 | BDVDB-2026-95305 Detail

Description#

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a modified kadmin client.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://github.com/poojamnit/Kerberos-V5-1.16-Vulnerabilities/tree/master/Denial%20Of%20Service%28DoS%29

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12018-01-16Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.