krb5 — security advisory
Multiple integer underflows in the (1) AES and (2) RC4 decryption functionality in the crypto library in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.3 through 1.6.3, and 1.7 before 1.7.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by providing ciphertext with a length that is too short to be valid.
- Products
- krb5
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2009-4212
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 23:32 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Multiple integer underflows in the (1) AES and (2) RC4 decryption functionality in the crypto library in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.3 through 1.6.3, and 1.7 before 1.7.1, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by providing ciphertext with a length that is too short to be valid.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2009-4212
krb5
Fixed versions: 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-1
krb5
Fixed versions: 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-1
krb5
Fixed versions: 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:46.313675246Z",
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