CVE-2023-39975 (GCVE-0-2023-39975)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-08-16 00:00
Modified
2026-02-25 17:20
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
kdc/do_tgs_req.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21 before 1.21.2 has a double free that is reachable if an authenticated user can trigger an authorization-data handling failure. Incorrect data is copied from one ticket to another.
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