CVE-2014-4345

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-4345
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-08-14 05:01:50 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionOff-by-one error in the krb5_encode_krbsecretkey function in plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in the LDAP KDB module in kadmind in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.6.x through 1.11.x before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a series of "cpw -keepold" commands.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 8.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-189 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
Single
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.10 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.10.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.10.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.10.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.10.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.11 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.11.5 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.12 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.12.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.6 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.6.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.6.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.7 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.7.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.5 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.8.6 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.9 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.9.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.9.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.9.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.9.4 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

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Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3000-1 krb5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Fix +1 error in storing krbPrincipalKey LDAP attr. by tkuthan · Pull Request #181 · krb5/krb5 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA59415 - Oracle Solaris Kerberos kadmind LDAP Backend Buffer Overflow Vulnerability - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA61353 - Red Hat update for krb5 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Security Advisory SA61314 - Oracle Linux update for krb5 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2014:1028-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
MIT kerberos 5 'ldap_principal2.c' Buffer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Security Advisory SA59102 - Debian update for krb5 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Mageia Advisory: MGASA-2014-0345 - Updated krb5 package fixes security vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 advisories.mageia.org
MIT Kerberos 5: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code (GLSA 201412-53) — Gentoo security af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
openSUSE-SU-2014:1043-1: moderate: update for krb5, krb5-doc, krb5-mini af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
RT/krbdev.mit.edu: Ticket #7980 LDAP key data segmentation buffer overflow [CVE-2014-4345] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 krbdev.mit.edu
www.osvdb.org/109908 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2017 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
CVE-2014-4345 Numeric Errors vulnerability in Kerberos (Third Party Vulnerability Resolution Blog) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 blogs.oracle.com
Security Advisory SA60776 - SUSE update for krb5 - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
linux.oracle.com | ELSA-2014-1255 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 linux.oracle.com
MIT Kerberos Buffer Overflow in kadmind with LDAP Backend Lets Remote Authenticated Users Execute Arbitrary Code - SecurityTracker af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securitytracker.com
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Fix LDAP key data segmentation [CVE-2014-4345] · krb5/krb5@dc7ed55 · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Juniper Networks - 2015-10 Security Bulletin: CTPView: Multiple Vulnerabilities in CTPView af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 kb.juniper.net
1128157 – (CVE-2014-4345) CVE-2014-4345 krb5: buffer overrun in kadmind with LDAP backend (MITKRB5-SA-2014-001) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com
mandriva.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2014-001.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 web.mit.edu Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: krb5-1.11.5-11.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: krb5-1.11.3-25.fc19 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
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