vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2022-41916: Heimdal: Multiple Vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 15, 2022
Added
Oct 10, 2023
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

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 Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-app-crypt-heimdal
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