CVE-2010-0628

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-03-25 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in the SPNEGO GSS-API functionality in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2 and 1.8 before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid packet that triggers incorrect preparation of an error token.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.8

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/39023
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-002.txt
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/839413
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510281/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38904
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-916-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566258
http://secunia.com/advisories/39023
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-002.txt
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/839413
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510281/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38904

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