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CVE-2017-15088 Detail

Description

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101594 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101594 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871698 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871698 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504045 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504045 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/fbb687db1088ddd894d975996e5f6a4252b9a2b4 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/fbb687db1088ddd894d975996e5f6a4252b9a2b4 Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/707 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/707 Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  
CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow Red Hat, Inc.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-15088
NVD Published Date:
11/23/2017
NVD Last Modified:
04/19/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.