{ "CVE_data_meta" : { "ASSIGNER" : "cve@mitre.org", "ID" : "CVE-2017-17439", "STATE" : "PUBLIC" }, "affects" : { "vendor" : { "vendor_data" : [ { "product" : { "product_data" : [ { "product_name" : "n/a", "version" : { "version_data" : [ { "version_value" : "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name" : "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format" : "MITRE", "data_type" : "CVE", "data_version" : "4.0", "description" : { "description_data" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "In Heimdal through 7.4, remote unauthenticated attackers are able to crash the KDC by sending a crafted UDP packet containing empty data fields for client name or realm. The parser would unconditionally dereference NULL pointers in that case, leading to a segmentation fault. This is related to the _kdc_as_rep function in kdc/kerberos5.c and the der_length_visible_string function in lib/asn1/der_length.c." } ] }, "problemtype" : { "problemtype_data" : [ { "description" : [ { "lang" : "eng", "value" : "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references" : { "reference_data" : [ { "url" : "http://www.h5l.org/pipermail/heimdal-discuss/2017-August/000259.html" }, { "url" : "http://h5l.org/advisories.html?show=2017-12-08" }, { "url" : "http://www.h5l.org/pipermail/heimdal-announce/2017-December/000008.html" }, { "url" : "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=878144" }, { "url" : "https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/1a6a6e462dc2ac6111f9e02c6852ddec4849b887" }, { "url" : "https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/issues/353" }, { "url" : "https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4055" } ] } }