Security Advisory

CVE-2022-41916

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-11-15 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-04-23 16:37:26
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdals PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdals libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.