suse · CVE-2018-5709

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Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 14:09:35 UTC Updated: 2025-10-05 02:03:40 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2018-5709 severity moderate: SUSE including 13 source package names (krb5, krb5-32bit, …), 125 product×package rows across 35 product lines (Magnum Orchestration 7, SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3, … (35 product lines)): Known Not Affected 125.

Description:

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.

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