CVE-2010-1320

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-04-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Double free vulnerability in do_tgs_req.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7.x and 1.8.x before 1.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a request associated with (1) renewal or (2) validation.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.8, 1.8.1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=577490
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://secunia.com/advisories/39784
http://secunia.com/advisories/40220
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023904
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2010-004.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510843/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39599
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-940-1

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