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Critical USN-5800-1 4 CVEs

heimdal vulnerabilities

Published Jan 12, 2023 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that Heimdal incorrectly handled certain SPNEGO tokens. A
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2021-44758)

Evgeny Legerov discovered that Heimdal incorrectly handled memory when
performing certain DES decryption operations. A remote attacker could use
this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2022-3437)

Greg Hudson discovered that Kerberos PAC implementation used in Heimdal
incorrectly handled certain parsing operations. A remote attacker could use
this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code. (CVE-2022-42898)

It was discovered that Heimdal's KDC did not properly handle certain error
conditions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-44640)

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS heimdal 7.5.0+dfsg-1ubuntu0.3
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS heimdal 7.7.0+dfsg-1ubuntu1.3
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS heimdal 1.6~git20131207+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2+esm3
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS heimdal 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-44758
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-3437
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-42898
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-44640