| Name | CVE-2015-8630 |
| Description | The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name. |
| 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 | 813127 |
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 | squeeze | (not affected) | | | |
| krb5 | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| krb5 | source | jessie | 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u2 | | | |
| krb5 | source | (unstable) | 1.13.2+dfsg-5 | | | 813127 |
Notes
[wheezy] - krb5 <not-affected> (Vulnerability introduced in 1.12)
[squeeze] - krb5 <not-affected> (Vulnerability introduced in 1.12)
Fixed by: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/b863de7fbf080b15e347a736fdda0a82d42f4f6b
Introduced by: https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/0780e46fc13dbafa177525164997cd204cc50b51 (krb5-1.12-alpha1)