This bug is based on a code observation (feel free to try it; I didn't
because it seemed obvious).

 

If you have a file keytab with the name KDB_xyz, and you specify -kt
KDB_xyz, kinit will attempt to open the Kerberos database (which may or may
not exist on that machine), due to the strncmp() call being invoked with an
incorrect parameter.  KDB: contains 4 characters, not 3 characters, and thus
strncmp() should have specified four characters to ensure the : is also
matched.

 

 

<tardis:probe> {~/krb5}

836-1$ diff -u krb5-1.11.2/src/clients/kinit/kinit.c{.dist,}

--- krb5-1.11.2/src/clients/kinit/kinit.c.dist  2013-04-12
13:51:35.000000000 -0400

+++ krb5-1.11.2/src/clients/kinit/kinit.c       2013-05-10
08:53:08.924024226 -0400

@@ -719,7 +719,7 @@

     if ((opts->action == INIT_KT) && opts->keytab_name)

     {

#ifndef _WIN32

-        if (strncmp(opts->keytab_name, "KDB:", 3) == 0) {

+        if (strncmp(opts->keytab_name, "KDB:", 4) == 0) {

             code = kinit_kdb_init(&k5->ctx,

                                   krb5_princ_realm(k5->ctx, k5->me)->data);

             if (code != 0) {