Security Advisory

CVE-2009-0845

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2009-03-27 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 04:48:52
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.3, when SPNEGO is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via invalid ContextFlags data in the reqFlags field in a negTokenInit token.