CVE-2022-41916
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.
Published:Nov 15, 2022
Last Modified:Apr 23, 2025
EPS:Nov 15, 2022
EPSS Score:0.00232
CVSS Score:5.9
Affected Products
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Debian
Product
Debian Linux
Debian
Debian Linux
Vendor
Heimdal Project
Product
Heimdal
Heimdal Project
Heimdal
Exploits
No exploit reference
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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Attack Vector
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User Interaction
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Availability
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