CVE-2009-3295: Mit Kerberos 5

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 40.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The prep_reprocess_req function in kdc/do_tgs_req.c in the cross-realm referral implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a ticket request.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.7 only

Published 2009-12-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.