MIT Kerberos 5 1.7 Incremental Propagation kadmind memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in MIT Kerberos 5 1.7. Affected is an unknown function of the file kadmind of the component Incremental Propagation. Such manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-24528. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in MIT Kerberos 5 1.7. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file kadmind of the component Incremental Propagation. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22 (with incremental propagation), there is an integer overflow for a large update size to resize() in kdb_log.c. An authenticated attacker can cause an out-of-bounds write and kadmind daemon crash.

The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-24528 since 01/23/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 02/17/2026).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 215175 (SUSE SLES12 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2025:0351-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (215175) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-0218). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Affected

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
  • Debian Linux
  • Amazon Linux 2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Fedora Linux
  • Ubuntu Linux
  • SUSE Linux
  • Oracle Linux
  • RESF Rocky Linux
  • MIT Kerberos
  • IBM TXSeries
  • IBM MQ
  • IBM App Connect Enterprise
  • Dell PowerProtect Data Domain

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

VulDB Base Score: 3.5
VulDB Temp Score: 3.5
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CNA Base Score: 7.1
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 215175
Nessus Name: SUSE SLES12 Security Update : krb5 (SUSE-SU-2025:0351-1)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

01/23/2025 🔍
01/29/2025 +6 days 🔍
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02/17/2026 +384 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mit.edu

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2025-24528 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-24528
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-293996
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2025-0218 - MIT Kerberos: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of Service

Entryinfo

Created: 01/29/2025 16:21
Updated: 02/17/2026 05:37
Changes: 01/29/2025 16:21 (53), 02/10/2025 10:06 (2), 09/06/2025 16:42 (7), 01/17/2026 11:36 (12), 02/17/2026 05:37 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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