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1 vulnerability by heimdal
CVE-2022-41916 (GCVE-0-2022-41916)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-15 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:37
VLAI?
Title
Read one byte past a buffer when normalizing Unicode
Summary
Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-193 - Off-by-one Error
Assigner
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