CVE-2015-8631

medium

Description

Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a request specifying a NULL principal name.

References

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https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/83ed75feba32e46f736fcce0d96a0445f29b96c2

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034916

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3466

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0532.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0493.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00110.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00059.html

http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8343

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-02-13

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02141