Description: A vulnerability has been reported in Kerberos, which can potentially be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of uninitialized pointers when the "mechglue" abstraction interface of the GSS-API implementation performs certain error-handling functions. This can be exploited to potentially execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted packet.
The vulnerability is reported in versions krb5-1.5 through krb5-1.5.1. Other versions may also be affected.
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