CVE-2010-0628: Mit Kerberos 5

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The spnego_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in the SPNEGO GSS-API functionality in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 before 1.7.2 and 1.8 before 1.8.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon crash) via an invalid packet that triggers incorrect preparation of an error token.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.7 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.8 only

Published 2010-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.