CVE-2024-26458

Publication date 29 February 2024

Last updated 3 March 2025

Ubuntu priority

Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.21.2 contains a memory leak in /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmap_rmt.c.

leak in unused function

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
krb5	24.10 oracular	Fixed 1.21.3-3ubuntu0.2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.20.1-6ubuntu2.5
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needed
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.19.2-2ubuntu0.6
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.17-6ubuntu4.9
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needed

per upstream: “The pmap_rmt.c leak only affects pmap_rmtcall(), which is unused by the rest of the krb5 code base and likely unused by anyone else.”

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Package	Patch details
krb5	Upstream: c5f9c81