CVE-2011-0283

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-02-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed request packet that does not trigger a response packet.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.9

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/43260
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8073
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516299/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46272
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025037
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0330
http://secunia.com/advisories/43260
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8073
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516299/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46272

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