The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2, and 1.8 alpha, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid (1) AS-REQ or (2) TGS-REQ request.

The Rocky Linux 8.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ ciqsa-2026_0067 advisory.

    This advisory aggregates security fixes for the krb5 SRPM in CIQ LTS 8.6. It addresses 72 CVEs:
    CVE-2008-0947, CVE-2016-3120, CVE-2012-1014, CVE-2017-15088, CVE-2014-9422, and 67 more.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Rocky Linux 9.2 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ ciqsa-2026_0439 advisory.

    This advisory aggregates security fixes for the krb5 SRPM in CIQ LTS 9.2. It addresses 74 CVEs:
    CVE-2008-0947, CVE-2016-3120, CVE-2012-1014, CVE-2017-15088, CVE-2014-9422, and 69 more.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Rocky Linux 9.6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the CIQ ciqsa-2026_1422 advisory.

    This advisory aggregates security fixes for the krb5 SRPM in CIQ LTS 9.6. It addresses 80 CVEs:
    CVE-2009-0845, CVE-2008-0947, CVE-2016-3120, CVE-2024-3596, CVE-2012-1014, and 75 more.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the CIQ security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.06 (SP), has krb5 packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles     Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial     of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related     to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use     cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin     code that is specific to Red Hat. (CVE-2017-15088)

  - The process_chpw_request function in schpw.c in the password-changing functionality in kadmind in MIT     Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 through 1.9 frees an invalid pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute     arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request that triggers an error     condition. (CVE-2011-0285)

  - schpw.c in the kpasswd service in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.11.3 does not properly     validate UDP packets before sending responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged packet that triggers a communication loop, as demonstrated by     krb_pingpong.nasl, a related issue to CVE-1999-0103. (CVE-2002-2443)

  - The (1) ftpd and (2) ksu programs in (a) MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) up to 1.5, and 1.4.x before 1.4.4, and (b)     Heimdal 0.7.2 and earlier, do not check return codes for setuid calls, which might allow local users to     gain privileges by causing setuid to fail to drop privileges. NOTE: as of 20060808, it is not known     whether an exploitable attack scenario exists for these issues. (CVE-2006-3084)

  - The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 through 1.4.4, and 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration     daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, calls an uninitialized function pointer in     freed memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute     arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2006-6143)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 6.06, has krb5 packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles     Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial     of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related     to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use     cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin     code that is specific to Red Hat. (CVE-2017-15088)

  - The process_chpw_request function in schpw.c in the password-changing functionality in kadmind in MIT     Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 through 1.9 frees an invalid pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute     arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request that triggers an error     condition. (CVE-2011-0285)

  - schpw.c in the kpasswd service in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.11.3 does not properly     validate UDP packets before sending responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged packet that triggers a communication loop, as demonstrated by     krb_pingpong.nasl, a related issue to CVE-1999-0103. (CVE-2002-2443)

  - The (1) ftpd and (2) ksu programs in (a) MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) up to 1.5, and 1.4.x before 1.4.4, and (b)     Heimdal 0.7.2 and earlier, do not check return codes for setuid calls, which might allow local users to     gain privileges by causing setuid to fail to drop privileges. NOTE: as of 20060808, it is not known     whether an exploitable attack scenario exists for these issues. (CVE-2006-3084)

  - The RPC library in Kerberos 5 1.4 through 1.4.4, and 1.5 through 1.5.1, as used in Kerberos administration     daemon (kadmind) and other products that use this library, calls an uninitialized function pointer in     freed memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute     arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. (CVE-2006-6143)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that Kerberos did not correctly handle certain message types. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic to cause the KDC to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0283)

Nalin Dahyabhai, Jan iankko Lieskovsky, and Zbysek Mraz discovered that Kerberos did not correctly handle certain GSS packets. An unauthenticated remote attacker could send specially crafted traffic that would cause services using GSS-API to crash, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2010-0628).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201201-13 (MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MIT Kerberos 5. Please       review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with the       privileges of the administration daemon or the Key Distribution Center       (KDC) daemon, cause a Denial of Service condition, or possibly obtain       sensitive information. Furthermore, a remote attacker may be able to       spoof Kerberos authorization, modify KDC responses, forge user data       messages, forge tokens, forge signatures, impersonate a client, modify       user-visible prompt text, or have other unspecified impact.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

This update adds the upstream patch to avoid a potential denial of service in the KDC in versions 1.7 and later (CVE-2010-0283). It obsoletes a previous pending update to version 1.7.1, which incorporates a fix to avoid accidentally tripping account lockout logic on AD servers when the user types in the wrong password.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Versions of Mac OS X 10.6 earlier than 10.6.4 are potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities.  Mac OS X 10.6.4 contains security fixes for the following products :

  - CUPS

  - DesktopServices

  - Flash Player plug-in

  - Folder Manager

  - Help Viewer

  - iChat

  - ImageIO

Kerberos

  - libcurl

  - Network Authorization

  - Open Directory

  - Printer Setup

  - Printing

  - Ruby

  - SMB File Server

  - SquirrelMail

  - Wiki Server

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.6.x that is prior to 10.6.4.

Mac OS X 10.6.4 contains security fixes for the following components :

  - CUPS
  - DesktopServices
  - Flash Player plug-in
  - Folder Manager
  - Help Viewer
  - iChat
  - ImageIO
  - Kerberos
  - Kernel
  - libcurl
  - Network Authorization
  - Open Directory
  - Printer Setup
  - Printing
  - Ruby
  - SMB File Server
  - SquirrelMail
  - Wiki Server

Two vulnerabilities in krb5 can be used by remote attackers in denial of service attacks. The MIT security advisories report this as follows :

An unauthenticated remote attacker can send an invalid request to a KDC process that will cause it to crash due to an assertion failure, creating a denial of service.

An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a GSS-API application, including the Kerberos administration daemon (kadmind) to crash.

Invalid requests by unauthenticated attackers could crash the kerberos server (CVE-2010-0283).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
358952	Rocky Linux 8.6 [CIQ] Security Update: krb5-devel / krb5-devel-debuginfo / krb5-libs / krb5-libs-debuginfo / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ciqsa-2026_0067)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical
355341	Rocky Linux 9.2 [CIQ] Security Update: krb5-devel / krb5-libs / krb5-libs-debuginfo / krb5-pkinit / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ciqsa-2026_0439)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical
354310	Rocky Linux 9.6 [CIQ] Security Update: krb5-devel / krb5-libs / krb5-pkinit / krb5-server / etc Multiple Vulnerabilities (ciqsa-2026_1422)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical
301200	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 (SP) : krb5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2026-0007)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	Local	critical
266225	NewStart CGSL MAIN 6.06 : krb5 Multiple Vulnerabilities (NS-SA-2025-0215)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	Local	critical
65122	Ubuntu 9.10 : krb5 vulnerabilities (USN-916-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
57655	GLSA-201201-13 : MIT Kerberos 5: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	medium
47267	Fedora 12 : krb5-1.7.1-2.fc12 (2010-1722)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
5571	Mac OS X 10.6 < 10.6.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus Network Monitor	Generic		critical
47023	Mac OS X 10.6.x < 10.6.4 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Combined	high
45571	FreeBSD : krb5 -- multiple denial of service vulnerabilities (9ac0f9c4-492b-11df-83fb-0015587e2cc1)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	Local	high
44668	openSUSE Security Update : krb5 (krb5-2002)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high

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