CVE-2009-0847

Publication date 9 April 2009

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.

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