Segfaults after receiving invalid AS-REQ

Andreas Haupt <[email protected]> Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:01:08 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.heimdal.general
Organization DESY
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear all,

we are running KDCs on Heimdal version 7.4. Since the update to version 7.x
a few weeks ago we observe KDC segfaults after receiving invalid AS-REQ.
Looks like an evil bug to me. Anybody else seeing this?

This is logged into syslog:

Aug 30 01:38:16 fred-vm1 kdc[3364]: No client in request
Aug 30 01:38:16 fred-vm1 kdc[3364]: AS-REQ malformed client name from IPv4:125.212.217.214
Aug 30 01:38:16 fred-vm1 kernel: [1163150.404544] kdc[3364]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f102fb5de22 sp 00007ffe868a7240 error 4 in libasn1.so.8.0.0[7f102fa9c000+d6000]
Aug 30 01:38:16 fred-vm1 journal: Missed 276419 kernel messages
Aug 30 01:38:16 fred-vm1 kernel: kdc[3364]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f102fb5de22 sp 00007ffe868a7240 error 4 in libasn1.so.8.0.0[7f102fa9c000+d6000]
Aug 30 01:38:16 fred-vm1 kdc[3357]: KDC reaped worker process: 3364, term signal 11
Aug 30 01:38:16 fred-vm1 kdc[3357]: KDC worker process started: 29859

Cheers,
Andreas
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