The acc_ctx_cont function in the SPNEGO acceptor in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5.x through 1.12.x…

Description

The acc_ctx_cont function in the SPNEGO acceptor in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty continuation token at a certain point during a SPNEGO negotiation.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

6.6% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-476 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-476 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (19)

• https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/a7886f0ed1277c69142b14a2c6629175a6331edc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121877 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/524688ce87a15fc75f87efc8c039ba4c7d5c197b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• kerberos-cve20144344-dos(95210) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/nas_advisory1.asc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2015:0439 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 60448 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/500/sol15561.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• FEDORA-2014-8189 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• 61051 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• DSA-3000 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7970 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• MDVSA-2014:165 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• 69160 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 109389 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 1030706 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 60082 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 59102 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 11:12 UTC.