CVE-2010-4022 Information

Description

The do_standalone function in the MIT krb5 KDC database propagation daemon (kpropd) in Kerberos 1.7 1.8 and 1.9 when running in standalone mode does not properly handle when a worker child process \exits abnormally\ which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (listening process termination no new connections and lack of updates in slave KVC) via unspecified vectors.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00004.html http://secunia.com/advisories/43260 http://secunia.com/advisories/43275 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8070 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-001.txt http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:025 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0200.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516286/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46269 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025035 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0329 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0333 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0347 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0464