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CVE-2022-41916

Read one byte past a buffer when normalizing Unicode

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 7.7.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Heimdal 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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • heimdal heimdal

    fixed in 7.7.1

References 5

GitHub · heimdal/heimdal

debian.org

lists.debian.org

security.netapp.com

security.gentoo.org