Red Hat Security Advisory 2012-1131-01 - Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and a trusted third-party, the Key Distribution Center. An uninitialized pointer use flaw was found in the way the MIT Kerberos KDC handled initial authentication requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash the KDC via a specially-crafted AS-REQ request. A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the MIT Kerberos administration daemon, kadmind. A Kerberos administrator who has the "create" privilege could use this flaw to crash kadmind.
fc644b1cb9cf0a8750b9b22679610ad70952fe4b170e2844397d3cea0bd64a5a