Bug 1031499 (CVE-2013-6800) - CVE-2013-6800 krb5: KDC remote DoS (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash)
Summary: CVE-2013-6800 krb5: KDC remote DoS (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-6800
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1026981 1031501 1089845 1121510
Blocks: 1026945 1063682 1101912
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Reported: 2013-11-18 06:38 UTC by Ratul Gupta
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:10 UTC (History)
10 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
It was found that if a KDC served multiple realms, certain requests could cause the setup_server_realm() function to dereference a NULL pointer. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the KDC using a specially crafted request.
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Last Closed: 2014-10-14 09:22:10 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1245 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: krb5 security and bug fix update 2014-09-16 09:28:35 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1389 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: krb5 security and bug fix update 2014-10-14 01:27:10 UTC

Description Ratul Gupta 2013-11-18 06:38:29 UTC
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-6800 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2013-6800
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-6800
Assigned: 20131115
Reference: http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7757
Reference: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/c2ccf4197f697c4ff143b8a786acdd875e70a89d

An unspecified third-party database module for the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10.x allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted request, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-1418.

Comment 1 Ratul Gupta 2013-11-18 06:39:44 UTC
Created krb5 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1031501]

Comment 2 Nalin Dahyabhai 2013-11-18 14:15:16 UTC
This has a different identifier from CVE-2013-1418, but points to the same patch.  Is there anything to update in the packaging here beyond what we already did for 1418?

Comment 3 Vincent Danen 2013-11-18 23:12:28 UTC
No.  I'm not sure why they split this other than the code looks slightly different but the fix is identical, and one is in 1.10.x and other 1.12.  I'm actually at a complete loss as to why MITRE did this.  As far as I'm concerned, this is CVE-2013-1418 (or bug #1026942).

Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2013-11-18 23:22:09 UTC
Okay, then.  I'll see if I can add this to the changelogs in source control, so that if/when we push other updates it'll show up there.  Thanks!

Comment 5 Vincent Danen 2013-11-18 23:44:21 UTC
Yeah, I think for some reason that this is for 1.10.x and the other is for 1.11 (which makes no sense as the code is so similar).  I guess mention it but I'm quite certain these two CVEs should be one.

Comment 6 Tomas Hoger 2013-11-19 08:30:49 UTC
Apparently, split was triggered by this wording in the upstream RT / commit:

  *A related* but more minor vulnerability requires authentication to
  exploit, and is only present if a third-party KDC database module can
  dereference a null pointer under certain conditions.

Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-30 09:07:22 UTC
Note: This issue can be triggered only if multiple realms are served from one KDC

Statement:

(none)

Comment 14 Martin Prpič 2014-09-09 09:47:14 UTC
IssueDescription:

It was found that if a KDC served multiple realms, certain requests could cause the setup_server_realm() function to dereference a NULL pointer. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the KDC using a specially crafted request.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-16 05:29:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1245 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1245.html

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 08:10:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1389 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1389.html


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