CVE-2014-5355

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-5355
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-02-20 11:59:00 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionMIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) through 1.13.1 incorrectly expects that a krb5_read_message data field is represented as a string ending with a '\0' character, which allows remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a zero-byte version string or (2) cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by omitting the '\0' character, related to appl/user_user/server.c and lib/krb5/krb/recvauth.c.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.1 All All All
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 1.12.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.13 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.13.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.5 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.6 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.7 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.2.8 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3 alpha1 All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.5 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.3.6 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.3 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.4.4 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.5 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.5.1 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.5.2 All All All
Application Mit Kerberos 5 1.5.3 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

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
MIT Kerberos 5 CVE-2014-5355 Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
openSUSE-SU-2015:0542-1: moderate: Security update for krb5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Fix krb5_read_message handling [CVE-2014-5355] · krb5/krb5@102bb6e · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Oracle Bulletin Board Update - January 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
RT/krbdev.mit.edu: Ticket #8050 Fix krb5_read_message handling [CVE-2014-5355] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 krbdev.mit.edu Vendor Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:069 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
USN-2810-1: Kerberos vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Oracle Linux Bulletin - October 2015 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.oracle.com
[SECURITY] [DLA 1265-1] krb5 security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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