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Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that the MIT krb5 Key Distribution Center (KDC) daemon could free an uninitialized pointer when handling a malformed AS-REQ message. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-1015) Emmanuel Bouillon discovered that the MIT krb5 Key Distribution Center (KDC) daemon could dereference an uninitialized pointer while handling a malformed AS-REQ message. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-1014) Simo Sorce discovered that the MIT krb5 Key Distribution Center (KDC) daemon could dereference a NULL pointer when handling a malformed TGS-REQ message. A remote authenticated attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2012-1013) It was discovered that the kadmin protocol implementation in MIT krb5 did not properly restrict access to the SET_STRING and GET_STRINGS operations. A remote authenticated attacker could use this to expose or modify sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2012-1012)

krb5 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS , Ubuntu 11.10 , Ubuntu 11.04 , Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2012-July/001773.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25