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CVE-2015-2698

Description

From CVE.org

The iakerb_gss_export_sec_context function in lib/gssapi/krb5/iakerb.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.14 pre-release 2015-09-14 improperly accesses a certain pointer, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by interacting with an application that calls the gss_export_sec_context function. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2015-2696.

Statement

This issue did not affect the versions of krb5 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6, and 7.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score48.5N/A
Attack VectorNetworkNetworkN/A
Access ComplexityLowMediumN/A
AuthenticationSingleSingleN/A
Confidentiality ImpactNoneCompleteN/A
Integrity ImpactNoneCompleteN/A
Availability ImpactPartialCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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