CVE-2025-24528 (GCVE-0-2025-24528)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-16 00:00 – Updated: 2026-01-16 18:06
VLAI
Summary
In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22 (with incremental propagation), there is an integer overflow for a large update size to resize() in kdb_log.c. An authenticated attacker can cause an out-of-bounds write and kadmind daemon crash.
Severity
7.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
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MIT Kerberos 5 Affected: 1.7 , < 1.22 (custom)
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