Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2004-003-asn1.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/bd60922b-fb8d-11d8-a13e-000a95bc6fae.html
Insight
The following package is affected: krb5
CVE-2004-0644
The asn1buf_skiptail function in the ASN.1 decoder library for MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) 1.2.2 through 1.3.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain BER encoding.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2004-0644 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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