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CVE-2014-4343 Detail

Description

Double free vulnerability in the init_ctx_reselect function in the SPNEGO initiator in lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.10.x through 1.12.x before 1.12.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via network traffic that appears to come from an intended acceptor, but specifies a security mechanism different from the one proposed by the initiator.


Evaluator Description

CWE-415: Double Free

Severity



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Hyperlink Resource
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0345.html
http://aix.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/security/nas_advisory1.asc
http://krbdev.mit.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=7969 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136360.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0439.html Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/59102
http://secunia.com/advisories/60082
http://secunia.com/advisories/60448
http://secunia.com/advisories/61052
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-53.xml Third Party Advisory 
http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/15000/500/sol15553.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3000 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.osvdb.org/109390
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69159
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030706
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1121876
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95211
https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/f18ddf5d82de0ab7591a36e465bc24225776940f Issue Tracking  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-415 Double Free cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-4343
NVD Published Date:
08/14/2014
NVD Last Modified:
01/21/2020
Source:
MITRE