CVE-2014-9423

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-9423
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2015-02-19 11:59:07 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

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

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

Problem Types: CWE-200 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

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

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

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2015-001.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 web.mit.edu Vendor Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: krb5-1.12.2-14.fc21 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:0257-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: krb5-1.11.5-18.fc20 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.fedoraproject.org
MIT Kerberos 5 CVE-2014-9423 Information Disclosure Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
USN-2498-1: Kerberos vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2015:069 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
openSUSE-SU-2015:0255-1: moderate: Security update for krb5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2015:0290-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Fix gssrpc data leakage [CVE-2014-9423] · krb5/krb5@5bb8a6b · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
Red Hat Customer Portal af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 rhn.redhat.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-3153-1 krb5 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2015-001-patch-r113.txt af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 web.mit.edu
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