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CVE-2023-36054

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—

lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.20.2 and 1.21.x before 1.21.1 frees an uninitialized pointer. A remote authenticated user can trigger a kadmind crash. This occurs because _xdr_kadm5_principal_ent_rec does not validate the relationship between n_key_data and the key_data array count.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (7)

Debian — Debian LinuxMIT — Kerberos 5Netapp — Active IQ Unified ManagerNetapp — Clustered Data OntapNetapp — HCINetapp — Management Services FOR Element SoftwareNetapp — Ontap Tools

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