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CVE-2014-5355

krb5: unauthenticated denial of service in recvauth_common() and others

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5

CVSS 2.0

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Published · December 9, 2014

Updated · August 5, 2026

Description

It was found that the krb5_read_message() function of MIT Kerberos did not correctly sanitize input, and could create invalid krb5_data objects. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to crash a Kerberos child process via a specially crafted request.

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 · 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference