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CVE-2018-5709

Published: 2018-01-16T09:29Z
Last Modified: 2024-11-21T04:09Z
Source: MITRE CVE List
License: MITRE-CVE-TOS
An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt