CVE-2012-1013

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-1013
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-06-07 19:55:07 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionThe check_1_6_dummy function in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.8.x, 1.9.x, and 1.10.x before 1.10.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a KRB5_KDB_DISALLOW_ALL_TIX create request that lacks a password.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4 from [email protected]

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

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

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.10 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.10.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.5 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.6 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.9 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.9.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.9.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.9.3 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
hermes.opensuse.org/messages/15083635 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 hermes.opensuse.org
MIT Kerberos 5 'check_1_6_dummy()' Function NULL Pointer Dereference Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
krb5-1.10.2 is released af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 mailman.mit.edu
Bug 827517 – CVE-2012-1013 krb5: kadmind denial of service af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2012:102 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Kerberos 5 Release 1.10.3 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 web.mit.edu
Null pointer deref in kadmind [CVE-2012-1013] · krb5/krb5@c5be620 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com Exploit, Patch
RT/krbdev.mit.edu: Ticket #7152 Null pointer deref in kadmind [CVE-2012-1013] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 krbdev.mit.edu
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