[krbdev.mit.edu #9193] git commit
"Greg Hudson via RT" <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Jan 2026 23:49:16 -0500
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<URL: https://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=9193 > Fix uninitialized pointer dereference in libkrad Commit 871125fea8ce0370a972bf65f7d1de63f619b06c changed krad_packet_decode_request() to use a local variable "req" to hold the decoded packet until it is verified, instead of immediately storing into the caller's *reqpkt. The code to check for duplicate packets erroneously continues to use *reqpkt, causing a read dereference of whatever was in *reqpkt on entry to the function (typically null or an uninitialized value). Fix the code to use req instead of *reqpkt. This bug does not affect the KDC (which only uses libkrad as a client), but can crash external software using libkrad as a server if it ever processes more than one packet at a time. [[email protected]: edited commit message] (cherry picked from commit f74a1b3fcde44cfa0d487973fd47a943cda49dc8) https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/a9b673942100bdb9568d4ed8cf0d05bf7211d803 Author: Julien Rische <[email protected]> Committer: Greg Hudson <[email protected]> Commit: a9b673942100bdb9568d4ed8cf0d05bf7211d803 Branch: krb5-1.22 src/lib/krad/packet.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)