Vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X

CVE-2009-0846

The asn1_decode_generaltime function in lib/krb5/asn.1/asn1_decode.c in the ASN.1 GeneralizedTime decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.6.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving an invalid DER encoding that triggers a free of an uninitialized pointer.

EPSS: 0.089 (94.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link)
  • cve@mitre.org (Broken Link, signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRIVA, Broken Link)
  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
  • cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_VUPEN)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)