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CVE-2016-3119 can crash the MIT Kerberos administration daemon when LDAP-backed Kerberos databases are used. An authenticated remote user could disrupt Kerberos administrative operations by triggering a NULL pointer dereference. The sources describe denial of service, not data theft or privilege escalation. Exposure is most likely on Kerberos administration servers running affected MIT krb5 versions with the LDAP KDB module enabled. Systems not using LDAP-backed Kerberos databases are not clearly implicated by the provided description. Treat this as a targeted service availability issue. It can interrupt Kerberos administration, but the provided evidence does not show unauthenticated compromise, data exposure, or active exploitation. Patch during normal security maintenance, faster for identity infrastructure with broad administrative dependency. Mitigation focus: Apply vendor krb5 security updates for affected distributions.; Upgrade MIT Kerberos past the affected version ranges.; Confirm the package fix includes the referenced upstream commit..
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- [debian-lts-announce] 20180131 [SECURITY] [DLA 1265-1] krb5 security updateCVE reference · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/08c642c09c38a9c6454ab43a9b53b2a89b9eef99CVE reference · x_refsource_CONFIRM
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