CVE-2010-0628

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2010-03-23
CWE:
CWE-617
Bugzilla:
566258: CVE-2010-0628 krb5: Assertion failure in GSSAPI SPNEGO mechanism (MITKRB5-SA-2010-002)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in the SPNEGO GSS-API functionality in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2 and 1.8 before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid packet that triggers incorrect preparation of an error token.

Find out more about CVE-2010-0628 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This flaw does not affect MIT krb5 as provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 7.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Complete

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