CVE-2021-44758
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-26 00:00
Modified
2025-04-14 15:57
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Heimdal before 7.7.1 allows attackers to cause a NULL pointer dereference in a SPNEGO acceptor via a preferred_mech_type of GSS_C_NO_OID and a nonzero initial_response value to send_accept.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/f9ec7002cdd526ae84fbacbf153162e118f22580Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/security/advisories/GHSA-69h9-669w-88xvThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-06
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/f9ec7002cdd526ae84fbacbf153162e118f22580Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/security/advisories/GHSA-69h9-669w-88xvThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-06
Impacted products
n/an/a
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