CVE-2022-41916

Summary

CVECVE-2022-41916
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-11-15 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-10-08 09:15:00 UTC
DescriptionHeimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-193

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 11.0 All All All
Application Heimdal Project Heimdal All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
December 2022 Heimdal Vulnerabilities in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Heimdal: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-06) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 3206-1] heimdal security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-5287-1 heimdal DEBIAN www.debian.org
Read one byte past a buffer when normalizing Unicode · Advisory · heimdal/heimdal · GitHub CONFIRM github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181242 Debian Security Update for heimdal (DSA 5287-1)
  • 181249 Debian Security Update for heimdal (DLA 3206-1)
  • 182499 Debian Security Update for heimdal (CVE-2022-41916)
  • 199067 Ubuntu Security Notification for Heimdal Vulnerability (USN-5766-1)
  • 283360 Fedora Security Update for heimdal (FEDORA-2022-dba9ba8e2b)
  • 283361 Fedora Security Update for heimdal (FEDORA-2022-cbbd105d08)
  • 283404 Fedora Security Update for heimdal (FEDORA-2022-2c77cee4b5)
  • 502599 Alpine Linux Security Update for heimdal
  • 502655 Alpine Linux Security Update for heimdal
  • 503994 Alpine Linux Security Update for heimdal
  • 710767 Gentoo Linux Heimdal Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202310-06)
  • 904510 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for heimdal (11459)
  • 904511 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for heimdal (11457)
  • 904780 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for heimdal (11457-1)
  • 905344 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for heimdal (11459-1)
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