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ALPINE-CVE-2022-41916
ALPINE-CVE-2022-41916
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Alpine:v3.19 | heimdal | 0, 7.7.0-r8, 7.7.0-r7 |
| Alpine:v3.18 | heimdal | 7.7.0-r6, 0, 1.2.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.14 | heimdal | 1.4-r0, 0, 1.2.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.15 | heimdal | 7.7.0-r8, 1.4-r8, 1.4-r9 |
| Alpine:v3.16 | heimdal | 7.5.0-r2, 0, 1.2.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.22 | heimdal | 0, 7.7.0-r8, 7.7.0-r7 |
| Alpine:v3.20 | heimdal | 7.7.0-r8, 0, 1.2.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.17 | heimdal | 0, 0, 1.2.1-r0 |
| Alpine:v3.21 | heimdal | 7.7.0-r3, 7.7.0-r8, 7.7.0-r7 |
| Alpine:v3.23 | heimdal | 0, 7.7.0-r8, 7.7.0-r7 |
| Alpine:v3.24 | heimdal | 0 |
Timeline
- Nov 15, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
- Jun 15, 2026 CVE Updated