CVE-2017-7562

NameCVE-2017-7562
DescriptionAn authentication bypass flaw was found in the way krb5's certauth interface before 1.16.1 handled the validation of client certificates. A remote attacker able to communicate with the KDC could potentially use this flaw to impersonate arbitrary principals under rare and erroneous circumstances.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
krb5 (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u9fixed
stretch (security)1.15-1+deb9u3fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1.15-1+deb9u6fixed
buster, buster (lts)1.17-3+deb10u7fixed
buster (security)1.17-3+deb10u6fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye1.18.3-6+deb11u5fixed
bookworm (security), bookworm1.20.1-2+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie1.21.3-3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
krb5source(unstable)(not affected)

Notes

- krb5 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later, cf. #873281)
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/50fe4074f188c2d4da0c421e96553acea8378db2
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/1de6ca2f2eb1fdbab51f1549a25a6903aefcc196
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/694/commits/b7af544e50a4d8291524f590e20dd44430bf627d

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