Check Point Advisories

MIT Kerberos KDC Cross Realm Referral Denial of Service (CVE-2009-3295)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2011-261
Date Published:	17 May 2011
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Sunday 24 November, 2024
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2009-3295
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?
Vulnerability Description	Kerberos is a protocol that allows for the negotiation of an authenticated, and optionally encrypted, communication channel between two points on a network. A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in MIT's Kerberos. The vulnerability is due to a NULL pointer dereference in the KDC cross-realm referral processing implementation. A remote attacker may exploit this issue by sending a crafted packet to an affected KDC. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would cause the KDC to crash, creating a denial of service condition.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block crafted packets sent to the vulnerable KDC.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the MIT Kerberos KDC Cross Realm Referral Denial of Service protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Application Servers Protection Violation.
Attack Information: MIT Kerberos KDC Cross Realm Referral Denial of Service