CVE-2014-5355

krb5: unauthenticated denial of service in recvauth_common() and others

Published Feb 20, 2015 CVSS 2.0 · 5.0 Medium EPSS 4.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.13.1 incorrectly expects that a krb5_read_message data field is represented as a string ending with a '\0' character, which allows remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a zero-byte version string or (2) cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by omitting the '\0' character, related to appl/user_user/server.c and lib/krb5/krb/recvauth.c.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1265-1 krb5 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-5244 MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.13.1 incorrectly expects that a krb5_read_message data field is represented as a string ending with a '\0' character, which allows remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a zero-byte version string or (2) cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by omitting the '\0' character, related to appl/user_user/server.c and lib/krb5/krb/recvauth.c.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2810-1 Kerberos vulnerabilities
History

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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 6, 2024, 11:41 AM
Reserved
Aug 19, 2014, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 20, 2015, 11:59 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 12:11 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Dec 9, 2014, 12:00 AM