CVE-2015-2698

Published Nov 13, 2015

Last updated 5 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
8.5
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
6.8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-119

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