CVE-2012-1012 - Halogenous Limitation

Description

server/server_stubs.c in the kadmin protocol implementation in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10 before 1.10.1 does not properly restrict access to (1) SET_STRING and (2) GET_STRINGS operations which might allow remote authenticated administrators to modify or read string attributes by leveraging the global list privilege.

Reference

http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?user=guest&pass=guest&id=7093 http://src.mit.edu/fisheye/changelog/krb5/?cs=25704 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=796438 http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/krb5-1.10/