CVE-2004-0644: Mit Kerberos 5

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The asn1buf_skiptail function in the ASN.1 decoder library for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2 through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain BER encoding.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.2.2 only; version 1.2.3 only; version 1.2.4 only; version 1.2.5 only; version 1.2.6 only; version 1.2.7 only; …

Published 2004-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.