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CVE-2014-5353

krb5: NULL pointer dereference when using a ticket policy name as a password policy name

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

3.5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 6, 2014

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

If kadmind were used with an LDAP back end for the KDC database, a remote, authenticated attacker who has the permissions to set the password policy could crash kadmind by attempting to use a named ticket policy object as a password policy for a principal.

Statement

This issue affects the version of krb5 package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not planned to be addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

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 · 3.5
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference