CVE-2009-0845

Publication date 27 March 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.3, when SPNEGO is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via invalid ContextFlags data in the reqFlags field in a negTokenInit token.

Status

No maintained releases are affected by this CVE.

Package Ubuntu Release Status
krb5 8.10 intrepid
Fixed 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3ubuntu0.1
8.04 LTS hardy
Fixed 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2ubuntu1.1
7.10 gutsy
Fixed 1.6.dfsg.1-7ubuntu0.2
6.06 LTS dapper
Not affected

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-755-1
    • Kerberos vulnerabilities
    • 7 April 2009

Other references