CVE-2011-0281
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 10, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 3, 2011
Description
The unparse implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.x through 1.9, when an LDAP backend is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file descriptor exhaustion and daemon hang) via a principal name that triggers use of a backslash escape sequence, as demonstrated by a \n sequence.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- MDVSA-2011:025vendor-advisory
- 46265vdb-entry
- 20111013 VMSA-2011-0012 VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party libraries and ESX Service Consolemailing-list
- 46397third-party-advisory
- ADV-2011-0347vdb-entry
- 43260third-party-advisory
- ADV-2011-0333vdb-entry
- RHSA-2011:0199vendor-advisory
- 43273third-party-advisory
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt
- 20110208 MITKRB5-SA-2011-002 KDC denial of service attacks [CVE-2011-0281 CVE-2011-0282 CVE-2011-0283]mailing-list
- 1025037vdb-entry
- SUSE-SR:2011:004vendor-advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html
- MDVSA-2011:024vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0464vdb-entry
- 8073third-party-advisory
- kerberos-ldap-descriptor-dos(65324)vdb-entry
- ADV-2011-0330vdb-entry
- [kerberos] 20101222 LDAP handle unavailable: Can't contact LDAP servermailing-list
- 43275third-party-advisory
- RHSA-2011:0200vendor-advisory
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