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CVE-2024-26462

Publication date 29 February 2024

Last updated 4 October 2024


Ubuntu priority

Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak vulnerability in /krb5/src/kdc/ndr.c.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
krb5 24.10 oracular
Vulnerable
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needed
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable
14.04 LTS trusty
Vulnerable

Notes


mdeslaur

per upstream: "The ndr.c leak also affects an encoding function, and triggers if the input contains invalid UTF-8. This one might be triggerable by a request (though it may require elevated privilege), but I would not have requested a CVE for it myself."

Patch details

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Package Patch details
krb5