CVE-2002-2443

Public on 2013-05-29
Modified on 2014-09-15
Description
schpw.c in the kpasswd service in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.11.3 does not properly validate UDP packets before sending responses, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and bandwidth consumption) via a forged packet that triggers a communication loop, as demonstrated by krb_pingpong.nasl, a related issue to CVE-1999-0103.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 krb5 2013-07-12 ALAS-2013-208 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P