Uninitialized Interposer Data Leakage in MIT Kerberos 5

CVE-2014-9423 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The svcauth_gss_accept_sec_context function in lib/rpc/svc_auth_gss.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) 1.11.x through 1.11.5, 1.12.x through 1.12.2, and 1.13.x before 1.13.1 transmits uninitialized interposer data to clients, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process heap memory by sniffing the network for data in a handle field.

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