CVE-2011-0283

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2011-0283 · Published 10/02/2011 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-0283 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting kerberos 5 (mit).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kerberos 5 mit	`= 1.9`	No fix yet

Description

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed request packet that does not trigger a response packet.

References

secunia.com/advisories/43260 · Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com/securityalert/8073
web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2011-002.txt · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/archive/1/516299/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com/bid/46272
securitytracker.com/id
vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0330 · Vendor Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

kerberos 5

mit

= 1.9

No fix yet

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