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CVE-2014-4344 Detail

Description

The acc_ctx_cont function in the SPNEGO acceptor in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty continuation token at a certain point during a SPNEGO negotiation.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html CVE, MITRE
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/nas_advisory1.asc CVE, MITRE
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7970 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136360.html CVE, MITRE
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59102 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/60082 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/60448 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/61051 CVE, MITRE
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/500/sol15561.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3000 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:165 CVE, MITRE
http://www.osvdb.org/109389 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69160 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030706 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121877 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95210 CVE, MITRE
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/524688ce87a15fc75f87efc8c039ba4c7d5c197b CVE, MITRE
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/a7886f0ed1277c69142b14a2c6629175a6331edc CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-4344
NVD Published Date:
08/14/2014
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
MITRE