CVE-2002-2443 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the kpasswd service in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) before version 1.11.3, impacting various distributions including Canonical, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Red Hat. The flaw, rated with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to cause CPU and bandwidth consumption through a communication loop triggered by specially crafted UDP packets. While the vulnerability is easily exploitable with low attack complexity, it only leads to a denial of service and does not compromise confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
11.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:11.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
12.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:12.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:17:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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