CVE-2019-14844

Publication date 26 September 2019

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

A flaw was found in, Fedora versions of krb5 from 1.16.1 to, including 1.17.x, in the way a Kerberos client could crash the KDC by sending one of the RFC 4556 "enctypes". A remote unauthenticated user could use this flaw to crash the KDC.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
krb5	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced by: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/a649279727490687d54becad91fde8cf7429d951

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
krb5	Upstream: 275c9a1

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H