CVE-2011-0283 Information

Description

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed request packet that does not trigger a response packet.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/43260 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8073 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516299/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46272 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025037 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0330