CVE-2014-9423
Description
An information disclosure flaw was found in the way MIT Kerberos RPCSEC_GSS implementation (libgssrpc) handled certain requests. An attacker could send a specially crafted request to an application using libgssrpc to disclose a limited portion of uninitialized memory used by that application.
Statement
This issue did not affect the versions of krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 as the flaw was introduced in a later version (1.11).
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 5 | 5 | N/A |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network | N/A |
| Access Complexity | Low | Low | N/A |
| Authentication | None | None | N/A |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial | Partial | N/A |
| Integrity Impact | None | None | N/A |
| Availability Impact | None | None | N/A |
Vector
Red Hat: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank MIT Kerberos project for reporting this issue.
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