CVE-2010-0629

medium

Published 2010-04-07 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.3 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a request from a kadmin client that sends an invalid API version number.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Fedora Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
11	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
11.1	Affected	—
11.0	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9.04	Affected	—
8.10	Affected	—
8.04	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1.7+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`1.7+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`1.7+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`1.7+dfsg-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`1.7+dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mit	kerberos_5	`{"startIncluding":"1.5","endIncluding":"1.6.3"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.