UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16807

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16807

    Published: 11 Sept 2018Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-16807

    Summary:

    Details: In Bro through 2.5.5, there is a memory leak potentially leading to DoS in scripts/base/protocols/krb/main.bro in the Kerberos protocol parser.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-16807, https://github.com/bro/bro/commit/34d0cf886ca16c665f673a299e295b2a2bc14533, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-16807

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bro

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-2build1?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.4+dfsg-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High