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CVE-2011-1527 (GCVE-0-2011-1527)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-10-20 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:28
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Summary
The kdb_ldap plugin in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 through 1.9.1, when the LDAP back end is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a kinit operation with incorrect string case for the realm, related to the is_principal_in_realm, krb5_set_error_message, krb5_ldap_get_principal, and process_as_req functions.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2011-10-18 00:00
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