CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9423

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2015-02-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-02-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

The svcauth_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11.x through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 transmits uninitialized interposer data to clients, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory by sniffing the network for data in a handle field.

Affected configurations

• mit kerberos 5 1.11 • mit kerberos 5 1.11.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.11.2 • mit kerberos 5 1.11.3 • mit kerberos 5 1.11.4 • mit kerberos 5 1.11.5 • mit kerberos 5 1.12 • mit kerberos 5 1.12.1 • mit kerberos 5 1.12.2 • mit kerberos 5 1.13

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References