Bug 917840 (CVE-2012-1016) - CVE-2012-1016 krb5: PKINIT null pointer deref leads to DoS
Summary: CVE-2012-1016 krb5: PKINIT null pointer deref leads to DoS
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-1016
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: 917841 917909 917910 924620
Blocks: 914754
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-04 22:01 UTC by Vincent Danen
Modified: 2021-02-17 07:58 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: krb5-1.10.4
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-04-03 18:18:44 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0656 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: krb5 security update 2013-03-18 22:03:12 UTC

Description Vincent Danen 2013-03-04 22:01:08 UTC 
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-1016 to
the following vulnerability:

Name: CVE-2012-1016
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1016
Assigned: 20120207
Reference: http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7527
Reference: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.10/
Reference: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/db64ca25d661a47b996b4e2645998b5d7f0eb52c

The pkinit_server_return_padata function in
plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_srv.c in the PKINIT implementation in
the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before
1.10.4 attempts to find an agility KDF identifier in inappropriate
circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted
Draft 9 request.


External References:

http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7527
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.10/


Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 as they did not include support for PKINIT.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2013-03-04 22:03:21 UTC 
Created krb5 tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 917841]
Comment 2 Vincent Danen 2013-03-04 22:07:28 UTC 
It also looks as though this does not affect krb5 1.11 as there is no reference to this CVE in the changes for 1.11.1 (http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.11/), or it has not been fixed upstream on 1.11.x yet.  I've not checked to see which is the case yet.
Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2013-03-05 16:51:16 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> It also looks as though this does not affect krb5 1.11 as there is no
> reference to this CVE in the changes for 1.11.1
> (http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.11/), or it has not been fixed
> upstream on 1.11.x yet.  I've not checked to see which is the case yet.

This was fixed there as http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7506.
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2013-03-16 01:31:38 UTC 
krb5-1.10.2-9.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-18 18:04:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0656 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0656.html
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2013-03-22 21:08:26 UTC 
krb5-1.10.3-14.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 8 Jan Lieskovsky 2013-03-29 16:14:40 UTC 
This issue did not affect the version of the krb5 package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
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