CVE-2002-1225: Kth Heimdal

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 4.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in Heimdal before 0.5, possibly in both the (1) kadmind and (2) kdc servers, may allow remote attackers to gain root access.

Affected products

• Kth Heimdal: version 0.3e only; version 0.4a only; version 0.4b only; version 0.4c only; version 0.4d only; version 0.4e only

Published 2002-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.