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Integer overflows and memory corruption errors have been identified during the encoding of the kerb-message OCTET STRING field in the KDC Proxy. The ASN1encoder.buf is allocated a buffer of size 1,024, while ASN1encoder.current points to ASN1_encoder.buf + 4. The KDC Proxy accepts Kerberos responses with a maximum size of 4,294,967,295. When a Kerberos response is sent with a length from 4,294,967,291 to 4,294,967,295, an overflow occurs due to the addition being stored in a 4-byte unsigned variable, leading to a heap buffer overflow when ASN1BEREncCharString() calls memcpy(). Similarly, for responses with lengths between 4,294,966,267 and 4,294,967,290, an overflow occurs during reallocation, causing an out-of-bounds write or heap buffer overflow. An edge case arises when passing 0 as the new size to LocalReAlloc(), leading to an access violation. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability for arbitrary code execution. Detection involves monitoring traffic on UDP port 389 and TCP port 88, focusing on Kerberos responses. If a response exceeds 0x80000000 bytes, it should be flagged as suspicious. The vulnerability was patched in November, and only KDC servers are at risk; domain controllers are unaffected. Immediate patching of all instances of the KPSSVC server is recommended.