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Medium severity6.5OSV Advisory· Published Jan 16, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-5710

CVE-2018-5710

Description

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a modified kadmin client.

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Affected products

3
  • Mit/KerberosOSV2 versions
    krb5-1.16-beta1, krb5-1.16-beta2, krb5-1.16-final+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: krb5-1.16-beta1, krb5-1.16-beta2, krb5-1.16-final
    • cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: <=5-1.16
  • Mit/Kerberos 5llm-fuzzy
    Range: <=1.16

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