CVE-2014-5354

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-11-20
CWE:
CWE-476
Bugzilla:
1174546: CVE-2014-5354 krb5: NULL pointer dereference when using keyless entries

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

plugins/kdb/ldap/libkdb_ldap/ldap_principal2.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.12.x and 1.13.x before 1.13.1, when the KDC uses LDAP, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) by creating a database entry for a keyless principal, as demonstrated by a kadmin "add_principal -nokey" or "purgekeys -all" command.

Find out more about CVE-2014-5354 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of krb5 package as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 3.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 krb5 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 krb5 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 krb5 Not affected

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