CVE-2016-3119
krb5: null pointer dereference in kadmin
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · March 14, 2016
Updated · August 5, 2026
Description
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in MIT Kerberos kadmind service. An authenticated attacker with permission to modify a principal entry could use this flaw to cause kadmind to dereference a null pointer and crash by supplying an empty DB argument to the modify_principal command, if kadmind was configured to use the LDAP KDB module.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 2.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference