CVE-2012-1016

no score yetEPSS 2.6%

mit kerberos 5: no CVSS score yet. EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The pkinit_server_return_padata function in plugins/preauth/pkinit/pkinit_srv.c in the PKINIT implementation in the Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.10.4 attempts to find an agility KDF identifier in inappropriate circumstances, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a crafted Draft 9 request.

EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 85% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2013-03-05
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

mit:kerberos_5

References

http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7527
http://secunia.com/advisories/55040
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.10/
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/db64ca25d661a47b996b4e2645998b5d7f0eb52c
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7527

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