Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime Affecting gssapi/gss-ntlmssp package, versions [,1.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GSSAPIGSSNTLMSSP-3319953
  • published15 Feb 2023
  • disclosed15 Feb 2023
  • creditphilipturnbull

Introduced: 15 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-25566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gssapi/gss-ntlmssp to version 1.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime when parsing usernames. The domain portion of a username may be overridden, causing an allocated memory area the size of the domain name to be leaked. An attacker can leak memory via the main gss_accept_sec_context entry point, potentially causing a denial of service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1