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krb5 — security advisory
An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.
- Products
- krb5
- Affected versions
- 1.20.1-2, 1.20.1-2+deb12u1, 1.20.1-2+deb12u2, 1.20.1-2+deb12u3, 1.20.1-2+deb12u4, 1.20.1-2+deb12u5, 1.20.1-2+loong64, 1.20.1-3, 1.20.1-4, 1.20.1-5, 1.20.1-5.1, 1.20.1-5.1~exp1, 1.20.1-6, 1.21.2-1, 1.21.3-1, 1.21.3-2, 1.21.3-3, 1.21.3-4, 1.21.3-5, 1.21.3-5+deb13u1, 1.22.1-1, 1.22.1-2, 1.22.1-2.1, 1.22.1-3
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-5709
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:14 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. There is a variable "dbentry->n_key_data" in kadmin/dbutil/dump.c that can store 16-bit data but unknowingly the developer has assigned a "u4" variable to it, which is for 32-bit data. An attacker can use this vulnerability to affect other artifacts of the database as we know that a Kerberos database dump file contains trusted data.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5709
krb5
Fixed versions: Not specified
krb5
Fixed versions: Not specified
krb5
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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