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CVE-2015-8629

Public on 2016-02-13
Modified on 2016-04-21
Description

An out-of-bounds read flaw was found in the kadmind service of MIT Kerberos. An authenticated attacker could send a maliciously crafted message to force kadmind to read beyond the end of allocated memory, and write the memory contents to the KDC database if the attacker has write permission, leading to information disclosure.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
2.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 krb5 2016-04-21 16:00 ALAS-2016-691

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 2.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N