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krb5 -- UDP ping-pong vulnerability in the kpasswd (password changing) service. [CVE-2002-2443]

Affected packages
krb5 <= 1.11.2

Details

VuXML ID e3f64457-cccd-11e2-af76-206a8a720317
Discovery 2013-05-10
Entry 2013-06-03

No advisory has been released yet.

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].

References

CVE Name CVE-2002-2443
URL http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.11/