CVE Catalog

CVE-2001-1323

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Buffer overflow in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) version 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via base-64 encoded data, which is not properly handled when the radix_encode function processes file glob output from the ftpglob function.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to remotely take control of the system, posing a serious security threat to the organization.

Recommendation

It is recommended to upgrade to a newer version of MIT Kerberos that addresses this vulnerability and to implement additional security measures to minimize the risk of attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Buffer overflow in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via base-64 encoded data, which is not properly handled when the radix_encode function processes file glob output from the ftpglob function.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS