CVE-2018-5709
ADVISORY - nistSummary
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.
EPSS Score: 0.00097 (0.417)
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
ADVISORY - nist
Integer Overflow or Wraparound
ADVISORY - redhat
Integer Overflow or Wraparound
NIST
CREATED
UPDATED
ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-5709
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE
3.9
EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)
Alpine
CREATED
UPDATED
ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-5709
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE
-
EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
Debian
CREATED
UPDATED
ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-5709
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE
-
EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
Ubuntu
CREATED
UPDATED
ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-5709
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE
3.9
EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)-
Red Hat
CREATED
UPDATED
ADVISORY IDCVE-2018-5709
EXPLOITABILITY SCORE
2.8
EXPLOITS FOUND
-
COMMON WEAKNESS ENUMERATION (CWE)