CVE-2011-1527

The kdb_ldap plugin in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.9 through 1.9.1, when the LDAP back end is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a kinit operation with incorrect string case for the realm, related to the is_principal_in_realm, krb5_set_error_message, krb5_ldap_get_principal, and process_as_req functions.

Date published : 2011-10-20

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/659251

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629558