CVE-2018-5710

An issue was discovered in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.16. The pre-defined function "strlen" is getting a "NULL" string as a parameter value in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC), which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a modified kadmin client.

This flaw was found to be a duplicate of CVE-2018-5729. Please see https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-5729 for information about affected products and security errata.

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