CVE-2002-0036: Mit Kerberos 5

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer signedness error in MIT Kerberos V5 ASN.1 decoder before krb5 1.2.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large unsigned data element length, which is later used as a negative value.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.2.1 only; version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only

Published 2003-02-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.