CVE-2009-0847
EPSS 20.3%Published: 4/9/2009Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0847
Description
The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/krb5from 0, < 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13