CVE-2005-1174: Mit Kerberos 5

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.3 through 1.4.1 Key Distribution Center (KDC) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a certain valid TCP connection that causes a free of unallocated memory.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.3 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only; version 1.3.3 only; version 1.3.4 only; version 1.3.5 only; …

Published 2005-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.