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CVE-2011-0283 (GCVE-0-2011-0283)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-02-10 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 21:51
VLAI
Summary
The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed request packet that does not trigger a response packet.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516299/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46272 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0330 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2011-02-08 00:00
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