mit kerberos CVE-2018-5709 is a vulnerability in MIT Kerberos
Published on January 16, 2018

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.

NVD


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Exploit Probability

EPSS
1.49%
Percentile
80.83%

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