CVE-2009-0844: Mit Kerberos

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 4.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The get_input_token function in the SPNEGO implementation in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5 through 1.6.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly obtain sensitive information via a crafted length value that triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos: version 5-1.6.3 only
• Mit Kerberos 5: affected versions not specified; version 1.5 only; version 1.5.1 only; version 1.5.2 only; version 1.5.3 only; version 1.6 only; …

Published 2009-04-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.