CVE-2015-8631

medium

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

CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Multiple memory leaks in kadmin/server/server_stubs.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a request specifying a NULL principal name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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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`
debian	7.0	affected
debian	8.0	affected
suse	42.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected
rhel	6.0	affected
rhel	7.0	affected
rhel	6.7	affected
rhel	7.2	affected
rhel	7.3	affected
rhel	7.4	affected
rhel	7.5	affected
rhel	7.6	affected
rhel	7.7	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mit	kerberos_5	`{"endExcluding":"1.13.4"}`	`1.13.4`

References

CWEs

CWE-772

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Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.