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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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  08/14/2014

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.8 HIGH
Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Complete
Additional Information:
Allows disruption of service

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

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476)

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-4344
NVD Published Date:
08/14/2014
NVD Last Modified:
08/28/2017