Heimdal · Heimdal · CVE-2022-41916
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Heimdal versions prior to 7.7.1
**Description**
Heimdal is an implementation of ASN.1/DER, PKIX, and Kerberos. The issue affects Heimdal's PKI certificate validation library, impacting the KDC (via PKINIT) and kinit (via PKINIT), as well as any third-party applications using Heimdal's libhx509. This results in a denial of service vulnerability.
**Recommendations**
For versions prior to 7.7.1, upgrade to Heimdal 7.7.1 or 7.8.
There are no known workarounds for this issue.