Denial of Service Vulnerability in MIT Kerberos 5 (krb5) SPNEGO Mechanism

CVE-2015-2695 · MEDIUM Severity

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

lib/gssapi/spnego/spnego_mech.c in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before 1.14 relies on an inappropriate context handle, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect pointer read and process crash) via a crafted SPNEGO packet that is mishandled during a gss_inquire_context call.

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