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CVE-2017-15088
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-11-23T17:29:00.353 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:07:13.567

Summary

plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.

Affected products

mit — kerberos_5

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References

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