CVE-2011-1527

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The kdb_ldap plugin in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 through 1.9.1, when the LDAP back end is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a kinit operation with incorrect string case for the realm, related to the is_principal_in_realm, krb5_set_error_message, krb5_ldap_get_principal, and process_as_req functions.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 7.8/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-20

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629558
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-006.txtVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/659251US Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:159
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1379.htmlVendor Advisory
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629558
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-006.txtVendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/659251US Government Resource
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:159
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-1379.htmlVendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 20, 2011
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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