Bug 1524546 (CVE-2017-17439) - CVE-2017-17439 heimdal: NULL pointer dereference via crafted UDP packets
Summary: CVE-2017-17439 heimdal: NULL pointer dereference via crafted UDP packets
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2017-17439
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1524547 1524548
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-12-11 16:38 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:28 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:33:26 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 16:38:43 UTC
In Heimdal through 7.4, remote unauthenticated attackers are able to crash the KDC by sending a crafted UDP packet containing empty data fields for client name or realm. The parser would unconditionally dereference NULL pointers in that case, leading to a segmentation fault. This is related to the _kdc_as_rep function in kdc/kerberos5.c and the der_length_visible_string function in lib/asn1/der_length.c.

Upstream issue:

https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/issues/353

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/1a6a6e462dc2ac6111f9e02c6852ddec4849b887

References:

http://www.h5l.org/pipermail/heimdal-discuss/2017-August/000259.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-12-11 16:39:08 UTC
Created heimdal tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1524548]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1524547]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:33:26 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.


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