Vulnerability CVE-2011-0283
Published: 2011-02-10   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed request packet that does not trigger a response packet.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
KDC denial of service attacks
Tom Yu
12.02.2011

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
MIT -> Kerberos 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8073
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516299/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46272
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025037
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0330
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