Out-of-bounds read - CVE-2014-4341
Published: July 20, 2014 / Updated: August 4, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33658
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-4341
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.12.2. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) by injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session.
Affected software
krb5 (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2014-4341
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
krb5 (Alpine package) - update to 1.11.2-r3
External References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html
- http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/nas_advisory1.asc
- http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7949
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136360.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59102
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60082
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60448
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3000
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:165
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68909
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030706
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94904
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/e6ae703ae597d798e310368d52b8f38ee11c6a73