Candidate: CVE-2015-8630
PublicDate: 2016-02-13 02:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8630
Description:
 The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions
 in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5)
 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote
 authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference
 and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.
Ubuntu-Description:
 It was discovered that Kerberos incorrectly handled policy names. A
 remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
 denial of service.
Notes:
 mdeslaur> introduced in 1.12
 ratliff> use of kadmind is not supported in touch and core
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813127
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_krb5:
 upstream: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/b863de7fbf080b15e347a736fdda0a82d42f4f6b
Tags_krb5: universe-binary
upstream_krb5: released (1.14+dfsg-1)
precise_krb5: not-affected (1.10+dfsg~beta1-2ubuntu0.7)
precise/esm_krb5: not-affected (1.10+dfsg~beta1-2ubuntu0.7)
trusty_krb5: released (1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4)
trusty/esm_krb5: released (1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4)
vivid_krb5: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_krb5: ignored
vivid/ubuntu-core_krb5: ignored
wily_krb5: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_krb5: not-affected (1.13.2+dfsg-5)
esm-infra/xenial_krb5: not-affected (1.13.2+dfsg-5)
yakkety_krb5: not-affected (1.14.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1)
zesty_krb5: not-affected (1.14.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1)
artful_krb5: not-affected (1.14.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1)
bionic_krb5: not-affected (1.14.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1)
cosmic_krb5: not-affected (1.14.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1)
devel_krb5: not-affected (1.14.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1)