CVE-2017-15088
highpriority · track · 42EPSS 0.083 · 95 %ileEUFRUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_crypto_openssl.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.15.2 mishandles Distinguished Name (DN) fields, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) in situations involving untrusted X.509 data, related to the get_matching_data and X509_NAME_oneline_ex functions. NOTE: this has security relevance only in use cases outside of the MIT Kerberos distribution, e.g., the use of get_matching_data in KDC certauth plugin code that is specific to Red Hat.
cvss
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
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affected products (2)
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advisories (1)
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- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMwareFrançais2026-10-26vendor · certfrFR
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references (15)
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- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871698cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504045cnnvd
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/fbb687db1088ddd894d975996e5f6a4252b9a2b4cnnvd
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/pull/707cnnvd
- https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101594cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101594enisa_euvd
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871698enisa_euvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504045enisa_euvd
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