Detections
Analytics
CVE-2012-1016
high
Description
The pkinit_server_return_padata function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_srv.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.10.4 attempts to find an agility KDF identifier in inappropriate circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted Draft 9 request.
References
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/db64ca25d661a47b996b4e2645998b5d7f0eb52c
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.10/