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Debian: DSA-5287-1 Urgent Heimdal Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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Calendar Grey November 22, 2022
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5112-1 announces essential updates for OpenSSL to mitigate significant vulnerabilities and risks.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Heimdal, an implementation of Kerberos 5 that aims to be compatible with MIT Kerberos

Summary

CVE-2021-3671

Joseph Sutton discovered that the Heimdal KDC does not validate that
the server name in the TGS-REQ is present before dereferencing,
which may result in denial of service.

CVE-2021-44758

It was discovered that Heimdal is prone to a NULL dereference in
acceptors where an initial SPNEGO token that has no acceptable
mechanisms, which may result in denial of service for a server
application that uses SPNEGO.

CVE-2022-3437

Several buffer overflow flaws and non-constant time leaks were
discovered when using 1DES, 3DES or RC4 (arcfour).

CVE-2022-41916

An out-of-bounds memory access was discovered when Heimdal
normalizes Unicode, which may result in denial of service.

CVE-2022-42898

It was discovered that integer overflows in PAC parsing may result
in denial of service for Heimdal KDCs or possibly Heimdal servers.

CVE-2022-44640

It was discovered that the Heimdal's ASN.1 compiler generates code
that allows specially crafted DER encodings...

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Package: heimdal
CVE ID: CVE-2021-3671 CVE-2021-44758 CVE-2022-3437 CVE-2022-41916

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