CVE-2021-44758

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Dec 26, 2022
Updated: Apr 14, 2025
Reserved: Dec 8, 2021

Description

Heimdal before 7.7.1 allows attackers to cause a NULL pointer dereference in a SPNEGO acceptor via a preferred_mech_type of GSS_C_NO_OID and a nonzero initial_response value to send_accept.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/security/advisories/GHSA-69h9-669w-88xv
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/f9ec7002cdd526ae84fbacbf153162e118f22580
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-06

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