DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0846

Advisory lineage Upstream: 1 Downstream: 1
Upstream
CVE-2009-0846
Downstream
DSA-1766-1
Published: 09 Apr 2009, 00:30
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:11

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Apr 2009, 00:30
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:11
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

Affected Systems

  • debian•krb5

    < 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 | < 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 | < 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 | < 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13

References (1)