Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
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| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed In |
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| heimdal_project | heimdal | 7.7.1 | - |
| debian | debian_linux | - | - |
| debian | debian_linux | - |
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AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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heimdal_project / heimdal
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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