CVE-2022-41916 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2022-41916

Read one byte past a buffer when normalizing Unicode

Vulnerability Description

Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. Versions prior to 7.7.1 are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability in Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, affecting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. Users should upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

heimdal
Vulnerable Versions:
< 7.7.1

Timeline

Official Publish: November 15th, 2022
Last Modified: April 23rd, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-193

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.