suse · CVE-2009-0847

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Priority: high Published: 2021-05-30 12:46:14 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 20:21:47 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2009-0847 severity important: SUSE including 115 source package names (krb5-1.12.1-19.1, krb5-1.12.1-6.3, …), 170 product×package rows across 34 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP1, … (34 product lines)): Fixed 170.

Description:

The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.

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