CVE-2011-0285: Mit Kerberos 5

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 20.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The process_chpw_request function in schpw.c in the password-changing functionality in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.7 through 1.9 frees an invalid pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request that triggers an error condition.

Affected products

• Mit Kerberos 5: version 1.7 only; version 1.7.1 only; version 1.8 only; version 1.8.1 only; version 1.8.2 only; version 1.8.3 only; …

Published 2011-04-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.