CVE-2004-0644

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Summary

CVECVE-2004-0644
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2004-09-28 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionThe asn1buf_skiptail function in the ASN.1 decoder library for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2 through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain BER encoding.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.5 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.6 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.7 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.8 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3 alpha1 All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.4 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
MIT Kerberos 5 ASN.1 Decoder Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0045 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.trustix.net Patch, Vendor Advisory
web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2004-003-asn1.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 web.mit.edu
Home - Conectiva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 distro.conectiva.com.br
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-543-1 krb5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA04-247A -- Vulnerabilities in MIT Kerberos 5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- MIT krb5: Multiple vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.gentoo.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
redhat.com | Red Hat Support af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#550464 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
'[OpenPKG-SA-2004.039] OpenPKG Security Advisory (kerberos)' - MARC af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 marc.info
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690347 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for krb5 (bd60922b-fb8d-11d8-a13e-000a95bc6fae)

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