CVE-2017-11462
Critical
CVE-2017-11462
Double free vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) allows attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving automatic deletion of security contexts on error.
Exploit probability
5.5%
Published
September 13, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
July 8, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
11 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-11462
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Double free vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) allows attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving automatic deletion of security contexts on error.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8598
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1488873
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/56f7b1bc95a2a3eeb420e069e7655fb181ade5cf
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2FPRUP4YVOEBGEROUYWZFEQ64HTMGNED/