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CVE-2015-3206

Estado: ModificadaAlta (8.1)—

The checkPassword function in python-kerberos does not authenticate the KDC it attempts to communicate with, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bad response), or have other unspecified impact by performing a man-in-the-middle attack.

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Tecnologías afectadas (1)

Apple — Pykerberos

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