CVE-2012-1014

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The process_as_req function in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10.x before 1.10.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed AS-REQ request.

Affected products

MIT Kerberos 5: 1.10, 1.10.1, 1.10.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00016.html
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2012-001.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2518
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-08/msg00016.html
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2012-001.txt
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2518

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