CVE-2024-26458 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

A memory leak in the Kerberos 5 library allows attackers to cause a denial of service by exhausting system memory.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-26458?

CVE-2024-26458 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mit Kerberos 5, published on 26 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak in /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmap_rmt.c.

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-26458?

It affects 9 products.

Products include Mit Kerberos 5, Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Cloud Volumes Ontap Mediator, Netapp H610c Firmware, Netapp H610s Firmware, Netapp H615c Firmware and 3 more.

How do I fix CVE-2024-26458?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-26458 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-26458 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Mit Kerberos 5 vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as AZL-35455, AZL-35479, BELL-CVE-2024-26458, DEBIAN-CVE-2024-26458, ECHO-4897-a3e3-018c, GHSA-qp5h-mm28-4jq3 and 2 more.

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