CVE-2005-1175: Mit Kerberos 5

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.4.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain valid TCP or UDP request.

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.