CVE-2011-0283

high

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.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0330

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025037

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46272

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516299/100/0/threaded

http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8073

http://secunia.com/advisories/43260

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2011-02-10

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

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: 0.01214