CVE-2024-37371

Publication date 28 June 2024

Last updated 29 August 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.21.3, an attacker can cause invalid memory reads during GSS message token handling by sending message tokens with invalid length fields.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
krb5	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.20.1-6ubuntu2.1
	23.10 mantic	Ignored
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.19.2-2ubuntu0.4
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.17-6ubuntu4.6
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.16-2ubuntu0.4+esm2 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.13.2+dfsg-5ubuntu2.2+esm5 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4+esm5 Ubuntu Pro

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Notes

mdeslaur

same commit as CVE-2024-37370

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
krb5	Upstream: 55fbf43

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.1 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-6947-1
Kerberos vulnerabilities
8 August 2024