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MEDIUM

security flaw

Published Mar 26, 2003

Description

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.7 and earlier allows remote, authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) on KDCs within the same realm using a certain protocol request that causes the KDC to corrupt its heap (aka "buffer underrun").

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (15)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Mar 26, 2003
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Feb 10, 2003
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Important
Public date Mar 19, 2003