CVE-2004-0644 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the asn1buf_skiptail function of the ASN.1 decoder library within MIT Kerberos 5 versions 1.2.2 through 1.3.4. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted BER encoding, leading to an infinite loop. The CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) indicates a low-severity issue with potential for denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.2.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mit:kerberos_5:1.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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