NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libkadm5 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published1 May 2026
- disclosed28 Apr 2026
Introduced: 28 Apr 2026
CVE-2026-40355 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libkadm5 package and not the libkadm5 package as distributed by RHEL.
In MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.22.3, there is a NULL pointer dereference if an application calls gss_accept_sec_context() on a system with a NegoEx mechanism registered in /etc/gss/mech. An unauthenticated remote attacker can trigger this, causing the process to terminate in parse_nego_message.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463370
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-40355
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:12220
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19145
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/2e75f0d9362fb979f5fc92829431a590a130929f
- https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html
- https://cems.fun/2026/04/27/krb5-two-unauthenticated-network-vulnerabilities.html