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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.089 (95.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 95.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.089 · newest: 0.089 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X
- Mit Kerberos 5
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 7.10, 8.04
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 9, 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 4.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 3.0, 4.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 4.7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/504683/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
- support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5047181.html (Broken Link)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6301 (Broken Link, signature, vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/662091 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502527/100/0/threaded (mailing-list, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0960 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 (Third Party Advisory)
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-142.htm (Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/35667 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)