CVE-2011-0285

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2011-04-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The process_chpw_request function in schpw.c in the password-changing functionality in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 through 1.9 frees an invalid pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request that triggers an error condition.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.7, 1.7.1, 1.8, 1.8.1, 1.8.2, 1.8.3 (+1)

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=621726
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=6899
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-April/058181.html
http://osvdb.org/71789
http://secunia.com/advisories/44125
http://secunia.com/advisories/44181
http://secunia.com/advisories/44196
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8200
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-004.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:077
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0447.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/517484/100/0/threaded

Get alerted when CVE-2011-0285 or the next vulnerability affects your stack