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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800441
Category:Denial of Service
Title:MIT Kerberos5 KDC Cross Realm Referral DoS Vulnerability
Summary:MIT Kerberos5 is prone to a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
MIT Kerberos5 is prone to a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The flaw is caused by a NULL pointer dereference error in the KDC cross-realm
referral processing implementation, which could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause KDC to crash.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation will allow an attacker to cause a DoS.

Affected Software/OS:
MIT Kerberos5 versions prior to 1.7.1.

Solution:
Update to version 1.7.1 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-3295
BugTraq ID: 37486
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/37486
Bugtraq: 20091228 MITKRB5-SA-2009-003 [CVE-2009-3295] KDC denial of service in cross-realm referral processing (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/508622/100/0/threaded
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023392
http://secunia.com/advisories/37977
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3652
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