#VU8901 Denial of service in Kerberos - CVE-2017-11368 

 

#VU8901 Denial of service in Kerberos - CVE-2017-11368

Published: October 19, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8901
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-11368
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Kerberos
Software vendor:
MIT

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an assertion failure. A remote attacker can send invalid S4U2Self or S4U2Proxy requests and cause the krb5kdc service to exit on a targeted system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Remediation

Update to version 1.14.6 or 1.15.2.

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