Oct. 7, 2022, 7:25 p.m. |

CERT Recently Published Vulnerability Notes kb.cert.org

Overview


The Heimdal Software Kerberos 5 implementation is vulnerable to a null pointer dereferance. An attacker with network access to an application that depends on the vulnerable code path can cause the application to crash.


Description


CVE-2022-3116
A flawed logical condition in lib/gssapi/spnego/accept_sec_context.c allows a malicious actor to remotely trigger a NULL pointer dereference using a crafted negTokenInit token.


Impact


An attacker can use a specially crafted network packet to cause a vulnerable application to crash.


Solution


The latest version …

kerberos vulnerable

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