Debian Linux Security Advisory 2052-1 - Shawn Emery discovered that in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5), a system for authenticating users and services on a network, a null pointer dereference flaw in the Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) library could allow an authenticated remote attacker to crash any server application using the GSS-API authentication mechanism, by sending a specially-crafted GSS-API token with a missing checksum field.
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