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GSD-2009-0847

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19
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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.
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CVE-2009-0847
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}



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