CVE-2012-1014

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

Unavailable / Other

Publication date:

06/08/2012

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

The process_as_req function in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10.x before 1.10.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed AS-REQ request.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Complete