pull up r20304 from trunk
r20304@cathode-dark-space: raeburn | 2008-04-18 15:31:47 -0400
ticket: new
subject: fix possible buffer overrun in handling generic-error return
target_version: 1.6.5
tags: pullup
Jeff Altman reported this, based on a crash seen in KfW in the wild.
The krb5_data handle used to describe the message field returned by the KDC is
not null-terminated, but we use a "%s" format to incorporate it into an error
message string. In the right circumstances, garbage bytes can be pulled into
the string, or a memory fault may result.
However, as this is in the error-reporting part of the client-side code for
fetching new credentials, it's a relatively minor DoS attack only, not a
serious security exposure. Should be fixed in the next releases, though.
ticket: 5944
version_fixed: 1.6.4
git-svn-id: svn://anonsvn.mit.edu/krb5/branches/krb5-1-6@20521
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