ubuntu · CVE-2016-3120

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-08-01 02:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:59:17 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-3120 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (krb5), 15 status rows across 15 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 10, released 3, ignored 2.

Description:

The validate_as_request function in kdc_util.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.6 and 1.4.x before 1.14.3, when restrict_anonymous_to_tgt is enabled, uses an incorrect client data structure, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an S4U2Self request.

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