Bug 2548262 (CVE-2026-107708)

Summary: CVE-2026-107708 krb5: krb5: Denial of Service via malformed PAC in S4U2Proxy requests
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: abokovoy, akhatavk, aos-team-art-private, asdas, dpaolell, eglynn, jdelft, jjoyce, jpretori, jrische, jschluet, jupierce, kbempah, lgarciaa, lhh, mbiarnes, mburns, mgarciac, ppalepu, ppostler, prdhamdh, rhel-process-autobot, sghai, sidsharm, solenoci, suppawar, vlaad, watson-tool-maintainers
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A flaw was found in krb5. This vulnerability allows a compromised or malicious cross-realm trusted Key Distribution Center (KDC) to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). By sending an S4U2Proxy delegation request containing a malformed client name within a Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC), an attacker can trigger a NULL pointer dereference that crashes the KDC daemon, interrupting authentication services.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-08 20:31:24 UTC
MIT krb5 through 1.22.2 contains a NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the KDC's get_pac_princ_with_realm() that returns success while leaving the client principal NULL on malformed names. A malicious or compromised cross-realm trusted KDC can send an S4U2Proxy request with a PAC carrying a malformed client name to crash krb5kdc and deny authentication.