MEDIUM 6.5 Microsoft

CVE-2023-36054

lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.20.2 and 1.21.x before 1.21.1 frees an uninitialized pointer. A remote authenticated user can trigger a kadmind crash. This occurs because _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec does not validate the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count.

Microsoft Security Update 2023-Aug: lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.20.2 and 1.21.x before 1.21.1 frees an uninitialized pointer. A remote authenticated user can trigger a kadmind crash. This occurs because _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec does not validate the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count.

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Published: 2023-08-08 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-10-30
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5 was published on 2023-08-08 via Microsoft. Affected: cbl2 krb5 1.19.4-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0.
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