CVE-2014-4343

krb5: double-free flaw in SPNEGO initiators

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · July 15, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A double-free flaw was found in the MIT Kerberos SPNEGO initiators. An attacker able to spoof packets to appear as though they are from an GSSAPI acceptor could use this flaw to crash a client application that uses MIT Kerberos.

Statement

This issue did not affect the version of krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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