CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-2698
8.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-11-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 8.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The iakerb_gss_export_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/krb5/iakerb.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.14 pre-release 2015-09-14 improperly accesses a certain pointer, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by interacting with an application that calls the gss_export_sec_context function. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2015-2696.
Affected configurations
• mit kerberos 5 1.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8273 Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00116.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00124.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2810-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/3db8dfec1ef50ddd78d6ba9503185995876a39fd github.com
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=8273 Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00116.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00124.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2810-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/3db8dfec1ef50ddd78d6ba9503185995876a39fd github.com