CVE-2014-9421

Severity

90%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

165%

CWE-416: Use After Free

The auth_gssapi_unwrap_data function in lib/rpc/auth_gssapi_misc.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 does not properly handle partial XDR deserialization, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and double free, and daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via malformed XDR data, as demonstrated by data sent to kadmind.

CWE-416: Use After Free

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Mit Kerberos 5

First reported 10 years ago

2015-02-19 11:59:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2020-01-21 15:46:00

Affected Software

Mit Kerberos 5 1.11

1.11

Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.1

1.11.1

Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.2

1.11.2

Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.3

1.11.3

Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.4

1.11.4

Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.5

1.11.5

Mit Kerberos 5 1.12

1.12

Mit Kerberos 5 1.12.1

1.12.1

Mit Kerberos 5 1.12.2

1.12.2

Mit Kerberos 5 1.13

1.13

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