Information Exposure Affecting krb5 package, versions <1.12.1+dfsg-17
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-KRB5-395862
- published 19 Feb 2015
- disclosed 19 Feb 2015
Introduced: 19 Feb 2015
CVE-2014-9423 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
krb5
to version 1.12.1+dfsg-17 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream krb5
package and not the krb5
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
The 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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9423
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/2015-001-patch-r113.txt
- http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/advisories/MITKRB5-SA-2015-001.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3153
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151103.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/151437.html
- https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/5bb8a6b9c9eb8dd22bc9526751610aaa255ead9c
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00044.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72503
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-9423
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2498-1
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:069