CVE-2014-4344 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2014-4344

The acc_ctx_cont function in the SPNEGO acceptor in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in...

Vulnerability Description

The acc_ctx_cont function in the SPNEGO acceptor in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.5.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via an empty continuation token at a certain point during a SPNEGO negotiation.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

debian linux, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux hpc node, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux workstation, kerberos 5
Vulnerable Versions:
7.0, 1.10, 1.10.1, 1.10.2, 1.10.3, 1.10.4, 1.11, 1.11.1, 1.11.2, 1.11.3, 1.11.4, 1.11.5, 1.12, 1.12.1

Timeline

Official Publish: August 14th, 2014
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.