Upstream information
CVE-2022-41916 at MITRE
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.
Overall state of this security issue: Resolved
This issue is currently rated as having important severity.
CVSS v3 Scores
| CVSS detail |  National Vulnerability Database | 
| Base Score |  5.9 | 
| Vector |  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | 
| Attack Vector |  Network | 
| Attack Complexity |  High | 
| Privileges Required |  None | 
| User Interaction |  None | 
| Scope |  Unchanged | 
| Confidentiality Impact |  None | 
| Integrity Impact |  None | 
| Availability Impact |  High | 
| CVSSv3 Version |  3.1 | 
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 
1205667 [RESOLVED / FIXED]
SUSE Security Advisories:
List of released packages
| Product(s) |  Fixed package version(s) |  References | 
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP3 |  libasn1-8 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libgssapi3 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libhcrypto4 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libhdb9 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libheimbase1 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libheimdal-devel >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libheimedit0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libheimntlm0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libhx509-5 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkadm5clnt7 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkadm5srv8 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkafs0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkdc2 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkrb5-26 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libotp0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libroken18 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libsl0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libwind0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
  |  Patchnames:  openSUSE-2023-20 | 
| SUSE Package Hub 15 SP4 |  libasn1-8 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libgssapi3 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libhcrypto4 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libhdb9 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libheimbase1 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libheimdal-devel >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libheimedit0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libheimntlm0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libhx509-5 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkadm5clnt7 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkadm5srv8 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkafs0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkdc2 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkrb5-26 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libotp0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libroken18 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libsl0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libwind0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
  |  Patchnames:  openSUSE-2023-19 | 
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 |  libasn1-8 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libgssapi3 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libhcrypto4 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libhdb9 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libheimbase1 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libheimdal-devel >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libheimedit0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libheimntlm0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libhx509-5 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkadm5clnt7 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkadm5srv8 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkafs0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkdc2 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libkrb5-26 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libotp0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libroken18 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libsl0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
 libwind0 >= 7.8.0-bp153.2.4.1 
  |  Patchnames:  openSUSE-2023-20 | 
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 |  libasn1-8 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libgssapi3 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libhcrypto4 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libhdb9 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libheimbase1 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libheimdal-devel >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libheimedit0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libheimntlm0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libhx509-5 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkadm5clnt7 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkadm5srv8 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkafs0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkdc2 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libkrb5-26 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libotp0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libroken18 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libsl0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
 libwind0 >= 7.8.0-bp154.2.4.1 
  |  Patchnames:  openSUSE-2023-19 | 
| openSUSE Tumbleweed |  libasn1-8 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libgssapi3 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libhcrypto4 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libhdb9 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libheimbase1 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libheimdal-devel >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libheimedit0 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libheimntlm0 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libhx509-5 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libkadm5clnt7 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libkadm5srv8 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libkafs0 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libkdc2 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libkrb5-26 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libotp0 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libroken18 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libsl0 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
 libwind0 >= 7.8.0-1.1 
  |  Patchnames:  openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2024-12580 | 
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CVE page created: Wed Nov 16 07:00:10 2022
CVE page last modified: Sat Nov  1 23:22:04 2025