An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable     dbentry->n_key_data in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has     assigned a u4 variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect     other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.
    (CVE-2018-5709)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - 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)

  - An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable
    "dbentry->n_key_data" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has
    assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect
    other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.
    (CVE-2018-5709)

  - An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is
    getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the Key
    Distribution Center (KDC), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL
    pointer dereference) via a modified kadmin client. (CVE-2018-5710)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
251900	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-5709	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high
423995	Alpine: multiple krb5 packages: security update to 1.15.3-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical
423995	Alpine: multiple krb5 packages: security update to 1.15.3-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical
400660	Alpine: multiple krb5 packages: security update to 1.15.2-r2 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical
400660	Alpine: multiple krb5 packages: security update to 1.15.2-r2 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	Local	critical

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CVE-2018-5709

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