CVE-2009-0846

high

Description

The asn1_decode_generaltime function in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_decode.c in the ASN.1 GeneralizedTime decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an invalid DER encoding that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2009-0008.html

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-755-1

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-142.htm

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-09.xml

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0410.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0409.html

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497213107107&w=2

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124896429301168&w=2

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00206.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-April/msg00205.html

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2009-002.txt

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-04-09

Updated: 2025-04-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.23588