| Name | CVE-2017-15088 |
| Description | plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 871698 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| krb5 (PTS) | buster | 1.17-3+deb10u4 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 1.17-3+deb10u6 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.18.3-6+deb11u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 1.18.3-6+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.20.1-2+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 1.20.1-5 | fixed |
| sid | 1.20.1-6 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| krb5 | source | (unstable) | 1.15.2-2 | unimportant | | 871698 |
Notes
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/707
Fixed by: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/fbb687db1088ddd894d975996e5f6a4252b9a2b4
Red Hat eanbled the code in question in the KDC and thus having it
exposed as network-facing issue. For Debian and upstream the code only
runs on client systems, and only with a certificate that is explicitly
configured locally, leading to a local kinit crash if passed a crafted
local certificate. This is hardly has any harmful security implication.