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DEBIAN-CVE-2022-41916
DEBIAN-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 v3.1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:14 | heimdal | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | heimdal | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:12 | heimdal | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | heimdal | 0, 7.7.0+dfsg-2, 7.7.0+dfsg-2+deb11u1 |
Timeline
- Nov 15, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated