CVE-2015-8630

high

Published 2016-02-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

83%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1.13.2+dfsg-5`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.13.2+dfsg-5`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.13.2+dfsg-5`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.13.2+dfsg-5`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.13.2+dfsg-5`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mit	kerberos_5	`1.12`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.12.1`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.12.2`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.12.3`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.12.4`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.12.5`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.13`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.13.1`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.13.2`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.13.3`
mit	kerberos_5	`1.14`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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