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CVE-2017-17439 Detail

Description

In Heimdal through 7.4, remote unauthenticated attackers are able to crash the KDC by sending a crafted UDP packet containing empty data fields for client name or realm. The parser would unconditionally dereference NULL pointers in that case, leading to a segmentation fault. This is related to the _kdc_as_rep function in kdc/kerberos5.c and the der_length_visible_string function in lib/asn1/der_length.c.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://h5l.org/advisories.html?show=2017-12-08
http://www.h5l.org/pipermail/heimdal-announce/2017-December/000008.html
http://www.h5l.org/pipermail/heimdal-discuss/2017-August/000259.html Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878144 Issue Tracking  Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/1a6a6e462dc2ac6111f9e02c6852ddec4849b887 Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/issues/353 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4055 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-17439
NVD Published Date:
12/06/2017
NVD Last Modified:
12/29/2017
Source:
MITRE