CVE-2026-11850An integer underflow vulnerability was found in MIT krb5 in the berval2tl_data() function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c.
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An integer underflow vulnerability was found in MIT krb5 in the berval2tl_data() function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c. The function performs an unsigned subtraction (bv_len - 2) without a prior bounds check. When bv_len is 0 or 1, the subtraction wraps to a large value which is then truncated to uint16_t, yielding 0xFFFE (65534) or 0xFFFF (65535). The subsequent malloc succeeds and memcpy reads up to 65534 bytes from a 0-1 byte buffer, resulting in a heap out-of-bounds read. The attack vector involves a malicious or compromised LDAP KDB backend returning a krbExtraData attribute with bv_len < 2, triggering the underflow when the KDC or kadmind reads principal data.
- CVSS
- 5.0 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-191
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Aug 31, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
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References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:25520
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-11850
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459970
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