cve/2015/CVE-2015-8630.md

### [CVE-2015-8630](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8630)
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### Description

The (1) kadm5_create_principal_3 and (2) kadm5_modify_principal functions in lib/kadm5/srv/svr_principal.c in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.4 and 1.14.x before 1.14.1 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by specifying KADM5_POLICY with a NULL policy name.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/b863de7fbf080b15e347a736fdda0a82d42f4f6b

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/RedHatSatellite/satellite-host-cve