Per referenced URL, MIT Kerberos 1.9.x is vulnerable to a DoS due to a KDC null pointer dereference in TGS handling. A patch to fix this issue is available at: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2011-007-patch.txt Reproducible: Always
+*mit-krb5-1.9.2-r1 (07 Dec 2011) + + 07 Dec 2011; Eray Aslan <eras@gentoo.org> +mit-krb5-1.9.2-r1.ebuild, + +files/CVE-2011-1530.patch: + security bump - bug #393429 + @security: Please stabilize =app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.9.2-r1. Thank you.
Thanks, Eray. Arches, please test and mark stable: =app-crypt/mit-krb5-1.9.2-r1 Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"
amd64 ok
Stable for HPPA.
x86 stable
alpha/arm/ia64/s390/sh/sparc stable
Stable for AMD64
CVE-2011-1530 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-1530): The process_tgs_req function in do_tgs_req.c in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 through 1.9.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted TGS request that triggers an error other than the KRB5_KDB_NOENTRY error.
ppc/ppc64 done
@Security, please proceed to vote.
Thanks, folks. GLSA Vote: yes.
GLSA vote: yes. Adding to existing request.
This issue was resolved and addressed in GLSA 201201-13 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201201-13.xml by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).