CVE-2001-1323: mit kerberos_5 Classic Buffer Overflow

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2001-1323 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Classic Buffer Overflow vulnerability in mit kerberos_5. EPSS estimates a 4.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 03-05-2002
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 08-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Buffer overflow in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via base-64 encoded data, which is not properly handled when the radix_encode function processes file glob output from the ftpglob function.

• CWE-120Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')The product copies an input buffer to an output buffer without verifying that the size of the input buffer is less than the size of the output buffer.