# CVE-2026-112316: Krb5: mit krb5 kadmind authenticated memory leak dos in xdr\_krb5\_tl\_data() decode failure

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-11-09 · Updated: 2026-11-09

CVE-2026-112316 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 6.5 (medium) and affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 3 more; no fixed version is listed yet.

## Summary

The MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) kadmind administration service has a memory leak that an attacker can trigger remotely by sending crafted RPC requests after logging in with a valid account, which can exhaust memory and cause a denial of service. The flaw occurs because partially decoded data is not freed when the decoding of certain requests fails.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- krb5: version range not reported
- krb5: version range not reported
- krb5: version range not reported
- krb5: version range not reported
- krb5: version range not reported
- krb5: version range not reported

## Description

xdr_krb5_tl_data() in lib/kadm5/kadm_rpc_xdr.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) does not free partially decoded data on failure, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory leak in kadmind) via crafted RPC requests that trigger a decode failure.

## What to do

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-112316
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2479331

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