CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-4344

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 14, 2014 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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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.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Debian_linuxDebian7.0 (including)7.0 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5RedHatkrb5-0:1.6.1-78.el5*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6RedHatkrb5-0:1.10.3-33.el6*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7RedHatkrb5-0:1.12.2-14.el7*
Krb5Ubuntuesm-infra-legacy/trusty*
Krb5Ubuntulucid*
Krb5Ubuntuprecise*
Krb5Ubuntusaucy*
Krb5Ubuntutrusty*
Krb5Ubuntutrusty/esm*
Krb5Ubuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References