Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference Affecting kerberos package, versions [,1.14)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.62% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-KERBEROS-3006782
  • published12 Jan 2022
  • disclosed9 Nov 2015
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Nov 2015

CVE-2015-2695  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-763  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kerberos to version 1.14 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.14 relies on an inappropriate context handle, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer read and process crash) via a crafted SPNEGO packet that is mishandled during a gss_inquire_context call.

CVSS Scores

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