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CVE-2015-8631

krb5: Memory leak caused by supplying a null principal name in request

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4

CVSS 2.0

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Published · January 8, 2016

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

A memory leak flaw was found in the krb5_unparse_name() function of the MIT Kerberos kadmind service. An authenticated attacker could repeatedly send specially crafted requests to the server, which could cause the server to consume large amounts of memory resources, ultimately leading to a denial of service due to memory exhaustion.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-401 · Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime