CVE-2017-9732

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-9732
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-20 23:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-01-11 16:24:00 UTC
DescriptionThe read_packet function in knc (Kerberised NetCat) before 1.11-1 is vulnerable to denial of service (memory exhaustion) that can be exploited remotely without authentication, possibly affecting another services running on the targeted host.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Secure-endpoints Kerberised Netcat All All All All
Application Secure-endpoints Kerberised Netcat All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
knc: fix a couple of memory leaks. · elric1/knc@f237f3e · GitHub CONFIRM github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
GitHub - irsl/knc-memory-exhaustion: PoC memory exhaustion exploit of kerberized netcat MISC github.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
knc (Kerberized NetCat) Denial Of Service ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Full Disclosure: CVE-2017-9732: knc (kerberized netcat) memory exhaustion FULLDISC seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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