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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2010-0283

Original release date:02/22/2010

Last revised:06/19/2010

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2, and 1.8 alpha, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid (1) AS-REQ or (2) TGS-REQ request.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:7.8 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (02/22/2010)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of MIT Kerberos 5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 or 5. Those versions do not contain the vulnerable code that was introduced in krb5 1.7.

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External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2010-1481

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-916-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-916-1

External Source: BID

Name: 38260

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38260

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20100216 MITKRB5-SA-2010-001 [CVE-2010-0283] krb5-1.7 KDC denial of service

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/509553/100/0/threaded