CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-5354

3.5 LOW Published 2014-12-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2014-12-16
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, when the KDC uses LDAP, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by creating a database entry for a keyless principal, as demonstrated by a kadmin "add_principal -nokey" or "purgekeys -all" command.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 1.13 • mit kerberos 5 1.12 • mit kerberos 5 1.12.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.12.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00061.html lists.opensuse.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71680 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031376 www.securitytracker.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2498-1 www.ubuntu.com
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/04038bf3633c4b909b5ded3072dc88c8c419bf16 github.com
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00061.html lists.opensuse.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71680 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031376 www.securitytracker.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2498-1 www.ubuntu.com
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/04038bf3633c4b909b5ded3072dc88c8c419bf16 github.com