{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2024-02-28T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "krb5: Memory leak at /krb5/src/kdc/ndr.c",
    "id" : "2266742",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2266742"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-401",
  "details" : [ "Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak vulnerability in /krb5/src/kdc/ndr.c.", "A memory leak flaw was found in krb5 in /krb5/src/kdc/ndr.c. This issue can lead to a denial of service through memory exhaustion." ],
  "statement" : "In the file ndr.c, a struct named b is defined, and its address is passed to the function k5_buf_init_dynamic. Inside this function, b is referred to as buf, and the malloc function is used to allocate dynamic memory for buf->data. After k5_buf_init_dynamic completes and returns, if an if statement evaluates to true, the program returns. During this process, the memory allocated to b is not freed, leading to a memory leak defect.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:9331",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "krb5-0:1.21.1-3.el9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2024-11-12T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2024:9331",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "krb5-0:1.21.1-3.el9"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "krb5",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "krb5",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Out of support scope",
    "package_name" : "krb5",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "krb5",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26462\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26462" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2024-26462",
  "csaw" : false
}