CVE-2002-2443
EPSS 15.0%krb5 - denial of service
Published: 5/29/2013Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
schpw.c in the kpasswd service in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.11.3 does not properly validate UDP packets before sending responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged packet that triggers a communication loop, as demonstrated by krb_pingpong.nasl, a related issue to CVE-1999-0103.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.10.1+dfsg-6
- Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze7