{"id":"MGASA-2017-0485","summary":"Updated heimdal packages fix security vulnerability","details":"Michael Eder and Thomas Kittel discovered that Heimdal did not correctly\nhandle ASN.1 data. This would allow an unauthenticated remote attacker\nto cause a denial of service (crash of the KDC daemon) by sending\nmaliciously crafted packets (CVE-2017-17439).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:25:13.933946183Z","published":"2017-12-31T15:14:43Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-17439"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0485.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22142"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4055"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"heimdal","ecosystem":"Mageia:6","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/heimdal?arch=source&distro=mageia-6"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"7.3.0-1.2.mga6"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2017-0485.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}