CVE-2015-8631 in Ubuntu

CVE-2015-8631

Priority

Description

Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT
Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote
authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a
request specifying a NULL principal name.

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8631

Bugs

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813126

Notes

ratliff> use of kadmind in core and touch is not supported

Package

Source: krb5 (LP Ubuntu Debian)

Upstream:	released (1.14+dfsg-1)
Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Precise Pangolin):	needed
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr):	released (1.12+dfsg-2ubuntu5.4)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):	not-affected (1.13.2+dfsg-5)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):	not-affected (1.14.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1)
Ubuntu 18.10 (Cosmic Cuttlefish):	not-affected (1.14.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1)
Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo):	not-affected (1.14.3+dfsg-2ubuntu1)

Patches:

Upstream:

https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/83ed75feba32e46f736fcce0d96a0445f29b96c2

More Information

Updated: 2019-01-15 12:14:21 UTC (commit cc9eabb453624adcf0888139a070d6edc70fc758)