CVE-2011-0283: Mit Kerberos 5

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed request packet that does not trigger a response packet.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.9 only

Published 2011-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.