MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-112321 (CVSS 7.5)

NVD · officialPublished Nov 9, 2026Risk 23/100

The AUTH_GSSAPI handler in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gssapi.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) does not free decoded arguments on certain error paths, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion in kadmind) via crafted AUTH_GSSAPI_INIT requests that trigger authentication failures.

Technical details

CVSS

7.5

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:NoneC:NoneI:NoneA:High

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