CVE-2022-41916

NameCVE-2022-41916
DescriptionHeimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3206-1, DSA-5287-1, ELA-795-1, ELA-797-1
Debian Bugs1024187

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
heimdal (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.6~rc2+dfsg-9+deb8u3fixed
stretch (security)7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u3vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u4fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)7.5.0+dfsg-3+deb10u2fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye7.7.0+dfsg-2+deb11u3fixed
bookworm7.8.git20221117.28daf24+dfsg-2fixed
sid, trixie7.8.git20221117.28daf24+dfsg-8fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
heimdalsourcejessie1.6~rc2+dfsg-9+deb8u3ELA-797-1
heimdalsourcestretch7.1.0+dfsg-13+deb9u4ELA-795-1
heimdalsourcebuster7.5.0+dfsg-3+deb10u1DLA-3206-1
heimdalsourcebullseye7.7.0+dfsg-2+deb11u2DSA-5287-1
heimdalsource(unstable)7.8.git20221115.a6cf945+dfsg-11024187

Notes

https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/security/advisories/GHSA-mgqr-gvh6-23cx
https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/eb87af0c2d189c25294c7daf483a47b03af80c2c (heimdal-7.7.1)

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