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CVE-2002-1235

CRITICAL

10.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.0460%

EPSS Percentile6.13th

PublishedNov 4, 2002

Last ModifiedApr 16, 2026

Vulnerability Description

The kadm_ser_in function in (1) the Kerberos v4compatibility administration daemon (kadmind4) in the MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) krb5-1.2.6 and earlier, (2) kadmind in KTH Kerberos 4 (eBones) before 1.2.1, and (3) kadmind in KTH Kerberos 5 (Heimdal) before 0.5.1 when compiled with Kerberos 4 support, does not properly verify the length field of a request, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a buffer overflow attack.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Kth

Kth Kerberos 4

< 1.2.1

📦

Kth

Kth Kerberos 5

< 0.5.1

📦

Mit

Kerberos 5

>= 1.0 and <= 1.2.6

💻

Debian

Debian Linux

= 3.0

References & Advisories

🔗 ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-026.txt.asc

🔗 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-10/0399.html

🔗 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000534

🔗 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103539530729206&w=2

🔗 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103564944215101&w=2

🔗 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103582517126392&w=2

🔗 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103582805330339&w=2

🔗 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/advisories/2002-002-kadm4_attacksig.txt

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