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CVE-2014-5355 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package krb5  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1504-KRB5-630389
  • published20 Feb 2015
  • disclosed20 Feb 2015
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Introduced: 20 Feb 2015

CVE-2014-5355  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:15.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream krb5 package and not the krb5 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.