CVE-2005-1174

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.3 through 1.4.1 Key Distribution Center (KDC) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain valid TCP connection that causes a free of unallocated memory.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5 (+3)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005//Aug/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2005/Aug/msg00000.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112122123211974&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/16041
http://secunia.com/advisories/17899
http://secunia.com/advisories/20364
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014460
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-101809-1
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2005-002-patch_1.4.1.txt
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1IY85474
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-757

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