CVE-2015-8631

Public on 2016-02-13
Modified on 2016-04-21
Description
A memory leak flaw was found in the krb5_unparse_name() function of the MIT Kerberos kadmind service. An authenticated attacker could repeatedly send specially crafted requests to the server, which could cause the server to consume large amounts of memory resources, ultimately leading to a denial of service due to memory exhaustion.
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.0
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 krb5 2016-04-21 ALAS-2016-691 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H