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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-5730

MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to circumvent a DN containership c...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

MIT krb5 1.6 or later allows an authenticated kadmin with permission to add principals to an LDAP Kerberos database to circumvent a DN containership check by supplying both a "linkdn" and "containerdn" database argument, or by supplying a DN string which is a left extension of a container DN string but is not hierarchically within the container DN.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 krb5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.16.1-1"}]}]

Debian:13 krb5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.16.1-1"}]}]

Debian:14 krb5

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.16.1-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org