Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2009-0847
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
2.77%
Original Filing — NVD Description
The asn1buf_imbed function in the ASN.1 decoder in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.3, when PK-INIT is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted length value that triggers an erroneous malloc call, related to incorrect calculations with pointer arithmetic.