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Re: 3 kerberos security issues

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On 3/1/24 07:13, Alexander Bergmann via Kerberos wrote:
> We got notified via NVD about 3 new security issues. Right now there
> seams to be no upstream reference. Could someone please comment on this?
> 
> CVE-2024-26458: Memory leak at /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmap_rmt.c
> CVE-2024-26461: Memory leak at /krb5/src/lib/gssapi/krb5/k5sealv3.c
> CVE-2024-26462: Memory leak at /krb5/src/kdc/ndr.c

These CVEs appear to be the result of someone running a static analysis 
tool over the MIT krb5 code base and assigning CVEs to each resulting 
defect, without performing any additional impact analysis or upstream 
consultation.

The pmap_rmt.c leak only affects pmap_rmtcall(), which is unused by the 
rest of the krb5 code base and likely unused by anyone else.

The k5sealv3.c leak affects an encoding function, and happens on a 
bounds check which likely cannot be triggered with any choice of 
memory-valid API inputs.  (The bounds check was itself introduced to 
quash a different static analysis defect.)

The ndr.c leak also affects an encoding function, and triggers if the 
input contains invalid UTF-8.  This one might be triggerable by a 
request (though it may require elevated privilege), but I would not have 
requested a CVE for it myself.

I will fix these on the mainline, but I only expect to assign a ticket 
to the third one.

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