DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0847

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0847 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.699999809265137 HIGH

The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.

Risk Scores

CVSS v4.0

8.699999809265137

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:14	krb5	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	krb5	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	krb5	0, 0, 0
Debian:12	krb5	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Apr 9, 2009 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-0847 advisory

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