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TITLE:
Heimdal GSS-API and kdc NULL Pointer Dereferences Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA39953

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RELEASE DATE:
2010-05-29

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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Heimdal, which can be
exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

1) A vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error
when processing certain authenticators, which can be exploited to
cause a crash by sending an AP-REQ authenticator with a missing
checksum field.

This is related to:
SA39762

2) A vulnerability is caused due to a NULL pointer dereference error
within kdc when processing certain messages with missing values,
which can be exploited to cause a crash by sending specially crafted
messages.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.3.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Tom Yu of MIT Kerberos.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
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