CVE-2014-5352
highpriority · track · 38EPSS 0.062 · 93 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
The krb5_gss_process_context_token function in lib/gssapi/krb5/process_context_token.c in the libgssapi_krb5 library in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 does not properly maintain security-context handles, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and double free, and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted GSSAPI traffic, as demonstrated by traffic to kadmind.
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affected products (11)
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references (44)
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- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151437.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00011.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00016.htmlcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00044.htmlcnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.htmlcnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0794.htmlcnnvd
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2015-001-patch-r113.txtcnnvd
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