medium5.9
CVE-2022-41916
Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Heimdal Project | Heimdal | before 7.7.1 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Versions 10.0, 11.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/security/advisories/GHSA-mgqr-gvh6-23cx
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00034.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-06
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0008/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5287
- https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/security/advisories/GHSA-mgqr-gvh6-23cx
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/11/msg00034.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-06
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0008/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5287