CVE-2002-1235 Information

Description

The kadm_ser_in function in (1) the Kerberos v4compatibility administration daemon (kadmind4) in the MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) krb5-1.2.6 and earlier (2) kadmind in KTH Kerberos 4 (eBones) before 1.2.1 and (3) kadmind in KTH Kerberos 5 (Heimdal) before 0.5.1 when compiled with Kerberos 4 support does not properly verify the length field of a request which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack.

Reference

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-026.txt.asc http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0399.html http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000534 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103539530729206&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103564944215101&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103582517126392&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103582805330339&w=2 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/2002-002-kadm4_attacksig.txt http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2002-002-kadm4.txt http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2002-29.html http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-183 http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-184 http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-185 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10430.php http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/875073 http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-073.php http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/ http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-242.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6024