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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-1174

Original release date:07/18/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.3 through 1.4.1 Key Distribution Center (KDC) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain valid TCP connection that causes a free of unallocated memory.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
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

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#259798
Name: VU#259798
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/259798
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2005-002-patch_1.4.1.txt
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2005-002-patch_1.4.1.txt
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20050712 MITKRB5-SA-2005-002: buffer overflow, heap corruption in KDC
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=112122123211974&w=2
External Source: XF
Name: kerberos-kdc-krb5-tcp-connection-dos(21327)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/21327
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-224-1
Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/usn/usn-224-1
External Source: TURBO
Name: TLSA-2005-78
Hyperlink:http://www.turbolinux.com/security/2005/TLSA-2005-78.txt
External Source: TRUSTIX
Name: 2005-0036
Hyperlink:http://www.trustix.org/errata/2005/0036
External Source: BID
Name: 14240
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14240
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2005:567
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-567.html
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2005:017
Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_17_sr.html
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-2074
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/2074
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2005-1066
Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/1066
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-757
Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-757
External Source: AIXAPAR
Name: IY85474
Hyperlink:http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY85474
External Source: SUNALERT
Name: 101809
Hyperlink:http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101809-1
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1014460
Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1014460
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20364
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20364
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 17899
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17899
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 16041
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/16041
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2005-08-15
Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
External Source: APPLE
Name: APPLE-SA-2005-08-17
Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
External Source: SGI
Name: 20050703-01-U
Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20050703-01-U.asc
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:397
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:397
Type: Tool Signature
Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:397

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.3.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.3.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.3.3
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.3.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.3.5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.3.6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:mit:kerberos:5-1.4.1
* Denotes Vulnerable Software
* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

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CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1174